There’s growing concern that the US Department of Health and Human Services is abandoning the US Preventive Services Task Force – or pushing it into “quiet paralysis.” ...

The 16-member U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which usually holds three annual meetings, last met in March of 2025. Its November 2025 ‌meeting did not take place due to ‌a government shutdown.

For the third time since March 2025, HHS has postponed a planned meeting for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which provides clinical preventive health recommendations to Congress every year.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s last meeting was in March 2025. It was supposed to meet last July and November, but those meetings were canceled or postponed amid a government shutdown.

Meeting will be "rescheduled in the coming months," according to HHS ...