January 19, 2024
We ask that Congress finalize the FY 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill at or exceeding President Biden’s proposed increase of $36 million, for a total of $67 million to support these critical efforts.
June 18, 2025
The undersigned medical professional organizations are writing to express our significant concern regarding your recent action to terminate the entirety of the membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ACIP has, for decades, been a trusted advisory to CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leadership, providing evidence-based recommendations regarding vaccinations through a transparent public process.
We appreciate that data for the rapidly emerging field of molecular diagnostic testing are still maturing and that the global costs associated with such testing, while not insignificant, are less costly than biopsy and its associated complications or graft failure and return to dialysis (in the case of kidney) or repeat transplantation. However, molecular diagnostic testing has indisputable clinical utility and may provide massive clinical and economic benefits in the early detection and management of solid organ allograft rejection.
June 25, 2025
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