The services of the Ministry of Health and Humans have changed CAP and will continue to finance for the women’s health initiative.
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The Trump administration restores financial support for a historic study of women’s health, said a manager on Thursday, reversing A financing decision This shocked medical researchers.
“These studies represent critical contributions to our best understanding of women’s health,” said a declaration by Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Social Services.
The decision was made because the National Institutes of Health, which finances the Women’s health initiativeOr WHI, “initially exceeded its internal objectives for reducing contracts,” said Nixon. “We are now working to fully restore funding for these essential research efforts.”
The Trump administration demanded that all federal health agencies reduce their contract expenses by at least 35%, undergo mass dismissals and dismiss hundreds of research grants.
“The NIH remains deeply determined to advance public health thanks to a rigorous research in gold and we take immediate measures to ensure the continuity of these studies,” added Nixon.
The news came a day after NPR reported the project funding reduction plan.
Relief on renewed support
The turnaround was a relief for scientists on the ground, although they were still waiting for official confirmation that the funding had been reversed.
“We are delighted to discover these news”, ” Jean Wactawski-WendeWho runs one of the four regional project centers that were to lose their funding, wrote in an email on Thursday after learning the reversal of NPR.
“WHI is a unique study that has a huge opportunity to advance our understanding of aging women’s health,” wrote Wactawski-Wende, who works at the University of Buffalo. “This will inform us about the factors associated with cardiovascular diseases, aging, cognition, fragility, resilience and much more.”
“If he is confirmed, it would be a wonderful news,” said Dr Joann MansonFrom the Harvard Medical School, longtime researcher. “This revolutionary study has much more to offer to advance the health of women and the health of all the elderly. It is exciting that the discoveries of rescue of the study can continue.”
“We would be delighted that the news is true so that revolutionary research on the health of women can continue,” said Marian Neuhouja of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, which chairs the steering committee of the initiative.
The continuous long -standing study to follow 40,000 women
HHS said he would terminate contracts in September with the four regional centers of California, New York, Ohio and North Carolina. The centers are always following more than 40,000 women, who have participated in the project for decades.
While the project coordination center at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle continued to receive funding until January, its fate after that remained clear. The termination of contracts for regional centers would have closed the collection of any new data, preventing the project from relying on decades of work by continuing to follow the volunteers.
The researchers said that the initial financing decision was surprising since the new administration had made the fight against chronic diseases an absolute priority. The initiative is unique to produce new important perspectives on many chronic diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
The NIH launched the initiative in the 1990s because most medical research had been carried out on men. The absence of women in studies raised questions about the question of whether their results applied to women, and that left unique health issues to unanswered women.
Over the years, scientists of more than 40 research centers across the country have collected detailed information on more than 160,000 women, including data on their diet, exercise, drugs and diseases.
The project has produced a series of important discoveries. The best known was probably the recognition that hormones starting with menopause does not protect the heart of a woman, who had been medical dogma for years. Subsequent results have supported the use of hormones to alleviate the symptoms of menopause.