A roadmap to better health for women
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Physician Dr. Sharon Malone is on a mission to help women better manage their health in the American health care system. Her No. 1 tip from her book 'Grown Woman Talk' -- Be your best advocate.
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:42.4 | This is on point. I'm Deborah Becker in for Magnitocra Bardi. |
| 0:46.0 | It appears that Women's House is having a moment, as they say. |
| 0:50.0 | Last month, President Biden signed an executive order he called the most comprehensive |
| 0:55.4 | action ever taken by a president on women's health research in America. |
| 0:59.8 | We've launched the first ever White House initiative of Women's Health Research, |
| 1:04.0 | to pioneer the next generation of scientific research and discovery in women's health. |
| 1:08.0 | Think of all the breakthroughs we made in medicine across the board, |
| 1:11.0 | but women have not been the focus. |
| 1:13.4 | That executive order allocates $200 million to the National Institutes of Health to research |
| 1:18.9 | women and health looking at topics such as menopause, endometriosis, arthritis, heart disease and |
| 1:25.7 | Alzheimer's disease, many of those disproportionately affect women, especially women of |
| 1:31.2 | color. Despite women making up over half the population, |
| 1:34.6 | medical research did not routinely include women |
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