Health care leaders and groups lash out over CDC word ‘ban’

Words matter—but a recent selection of phrases has brought on ire from
medical professionals and organizations nationwide.
On Friday, The Washington Post broke news that the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention—an organization under the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services—had “banned” a list of words from budget
documents.The Postreported:
Policy analysts at the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbi