'Funding for U.S.'s largest health study of women RESTORED!
April 24, 2025, 12:55 PM CDT / Updated April 24, 2025, 12:58 PM CDT
By Chris Hayes
This is an adapted excerpt from the April 23 episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue to gut all kinds of key federal programs, we are once again asking: Who voted for this? This week’s example: the Women’s Health Initiative.
The National Institutes of Health began the initiative back in 1991. The project started under the leadership of Bernadine Healy, a practicing cardiologist and legendary figure in public health. She was appointed by then-President George H.W. Bush to be the first woman to run the NIH. Healy called the initiative — the largest women’s health prevention study in the U.S. — a “moon walk” for women.
The purpose of the long-term project was to research cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, a group that had been historically neglected by disease prevention researchers.
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JoAnn Manson, a doctor with Harvard Medical School, told Science that the cuts are a “devastating blow to the health of all older adults in the U.S. and throughout the world.” She added, “No study is a better example of the enormous scientific impact of research on the prevention of chronic disease in the population.” Chronic disease prevention — that is the point of this research. It’s not a partisan issue.
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More babies but fewer pre and post menopausal women! Yeah!!
Guys this affects every woman you love. Your Grandmother, Mother, Wife, Sister, Niece and Colleague.
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