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The initiative aims to address research gaps and modernize care for women's health through a new NIH division and White House task force.
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump on Monday creating a task force and a National Institutes of Health division focused on women’s health, the White House said.
The task force will be led by Trump’s White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who recently announced that she is cancer-free, and US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, a White House official said.
The new Women’s Health Division at NIH will not replace the agency’s Office of Research on Women’s Health but will have a broader mandate beyond research.
“President Donald J. Trump & First Lady Melania Trump sign an executive order creating a Women’s Health Division at the NIH & a White House Women’s Health Task Force, aiming to close research gaps & modernise care for women,” a post on X announcing the signing said.
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The Women's Health Task Force will release initial recommendations within 90 days.
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The ophthalmic medical expert team of the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province successfully completed the "Bright Journey" mission in Bangladesh, performing free vision restoration operations for 100 local cataract patients, and conducting medical technology exchanges and training. This is the first Chinese medical team to go to Bangladesh to carry out this project.
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Northwestern University and the Buck Institute on Aging collaborated to analyze healthy ovarian tissue from 28 menopausal women and found that protein composition changes with age, and found clues related to inflammation, tissue fibrosis and ovarian cancer. The results were published in "Aging Cells".

The "Dementia Research Office" of the National Center for Aging Medicine and Health and Welfare Research of the National Institutes of Health was inaugurated on the 19th. DPP Yunlin County Governor candidate and legislator Liu Jianguo attended the event and said that Taiwan's dementia population is about 400,000 and rising rapidly. He hopes to integrate industry, government, academia and research through the research office so that research results can be introduced into families and communities to build a complete dementia protection network.
The National Medical Insurance Administration announced that the medical insurance wallet version 2.0 has been fully launched nationwide, realizing the cross-provincial sharing of employee medical insurance accounts, supporting online multi-channel and offline processing, further reducing the medical burden of insured people across provinces, and improving the efficiency of fund use.