Trump establishes new women’s health divisions

Trump establishes new women’s health divisions

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating new executive offices dedicated to bolster research into women’s health , crediting first lady Melania Trump for pushing the issue.

“Today we’re taking historic action to promote women’s health through all phases of life, despite amazing advances in medical science, many diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women remain chronically understudied,” President Trump said when announcing the order.

The order establishes the Women’s Health Division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a White House Women’s Health Task Force .

The task force will be led by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr .

Speaking from the White House’s Rose Garden, Melania Trump said the order “establishes a new standard for women’s health in America.”

“Our mission must serve women at every stage of life, from young girls just starting out, to mothers dealing with a complex range of responsibilities, to mature women who deserve to have vitality, dignity and independence,” she said.

According to a fact sheet from the White House, more research is needed in parts of women’s health like Alzheimer’s disease, endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovary syndrome, infertility, maternal health and menopause.

Some women’s health programs faced potential funding losses shortly after the second Trump administration began.

Early last year, NIH moved to cut funding to the Women’s Health Initiative program, a decades long national health study, to align with a mandate to $2.6 billion in NIH contracts. The decision was ultimately reversed.

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