Cedar Health Research and Texas Native Health Expand Partnership with Embedded Clinical Research Site to Increase Patient Access to Trials

Today, Cedar Health Research, a Texas-based clinical trial network focused on underserved patients, and Texas Native Health, a Dallas nonprofit serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities, ...
The Hill

Women’s health research needs funding boost, report says

NIH grant funding in both dollars spent and projects funded has increased overall since 2013. But the portion of funding for research on women’s health has shrunk nearly every year since then, ...
STAT

The most burdensome diseases globally are the least studied, but the gap is narrowing

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. For decades, medical researchers have raised concerns that most of ...
Los Angeles Times

Ending LGBTQ+ health research will leave science in the dark

In recent months, the Trump administration has terminated thousands of federally funded medical research grants, gutting $9.5 billion in critical health science efforts. More than half of those cuts — ...
FierceBiotech

Time to 'stop tolerating women's pain and suffering': Melinda Gates-backed research initiative raises $100M

U.S. nonprofit Wellcome Leap is partnering with the Melinda French Gates-founded coalition Pivotal, raising $100 million to advance women’s health research in areas with the highest need. “A woman’s ...
FierceBiotech

Biden asks Congress for $12B to fund women's health research

President Joe Biden urged Congress to adopt a $12 billion plan to fund women’s health research, including conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, menopause, Alzheimer’s disease and endometriosis. “Women ...
Forbes

Why Women’s Health Research Still Lags Behind

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geri Stengel writes about the success factors of women entrepreneurs. The gender gap in healthcare isn’t just a question of equity ...
STAT

U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% over five years, NIH study finds

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal ...
The Hill

Don’t let funding issues put women’s health on the back burner

Consideration of women’s health has been notably absent from recent efforts to cut, reorganize and begin to implement policy proposals designed to restructure and “modernize” the National Institutes ...
Nature

Closing the gender health gap is a $1 trillion opportunity

Kelle Moley is the Global VP of Clinical and Translational Research and Development, Reproductive Medicine and Maternal Health at Ferring Pharmaceuticals. For most of history, women have been treated ...
Michigan Technological University

Translational Health Engineering Research Center (THERC)

The Translational Health Engineering Research Center (THERC) at Michigan Technological University in West Michigan is a nationally visible research hub, promoting on- and off-campus collaborations ...