Shared for Information Purposes: What Last Week’s Health Hearings Revealed by Leaving FASD Out

 Last week’s congressional hearings on U.S. health policy covered familiar ground.  The central issue driving the hearings was the administration’s FY2027 budget request, which proposes cutting HHS discretionary funding by 12.5% and reducing NIH’s budget by more than $5 billion.  Federal investments have supported prevalence studies and longitudinal research through initiatives like the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD), along with early efforts to build screening and intervention models. The scale of that investment, though, has never come close to matching the prevalence or scope of FASD. 

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