2025-11-01
23 分钟Sweeping cuts across US agencies are putting vital, long-running surveys and data sets in danger.
These are the kinds of statistics that enable monitoring of things like veteran health,
maternal mortality, even the long-term health of the entire nation.
Officials are saying that without this data, the country would effectively be flying blind.
And our US health reporter will be revealing some of the startling impacts of the Trump's administration's cuts to health monitoring on the show today.
We'll also be learning about how our brains clean themselves and how this disrupts your day
if you don't get enough They're saying that these veins aren't even that deep under the surface,
but these veins could support life.
This episode is sponsored by Welcome's podcast, When Science Finds Away.
Welcome to the world, the universe and us.
I'm Dr.
Timothy Revel.
And I'm Dr.
Penny Sarte.
The US government has dealt blow after blow to the country's public health system this year.
The Trump administration has laid off hundreds of employees at the country's top public health agency.
And with such sweeping cuts,
it can be hard to get a picture of what the impact is when you wait for the dust to settle.
And also what that means for scientific research and health care itself.
So today we've got health reporter Grace Wade here to shed light on just how devastating some of the effects of this are likely to be.