Jill Biden visits Colorado to discuss women's health: "A necessity, not a luxury" – CBS Colardo
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First woman Jill Biden was in Aurora Saturday to tour the Ludeman Household Middle for Ladies’s Well being Analysis on the College of Colorado Anschutz campus.
“The College of Colorado is making an amazing distinction. And we’re at an unimaginable inflection level, able to make vital advances; advances on this woman-focused analysis,” mentioned Biden.
She additionally spoke to docs about their work to enhance well being care for ladies in Colorado.
The research of ladies’s well being may be vastly totally different than that of males’s well being and continues to be not effectively understood.
“Ladies’s well being analysis continues to be and stays very understudied. And I inform those that. A few of these folks, I believe they’re pondering, ‘She’s exaggerating.’ I am not exaggerating. That is why we’re right here right now,” mentioned Dr. Judith Regensteiner, director of the Ludeman Household Middle for Ladies’s Well being Analysis.
“Though we have made nice strides within the final 20 years, girls are nonetheless searching for well being care in a medical world largely designed for males,” mentioned Biden.
The go to was fast and largely a manner for the primary woman to tout the President’s dedication to fund girls’s well being care at a federal degree.
“That is like what we have been speaking about. That is what, you understand, why the president signed the funding that he did,” mentioned Biden. “We’re ensuring that when the federal government funds analysis, that work contains girls from the start. And once we make discoveries, these concepts get to the ladies and their households ready for solutions.”
Nevertheless, the occasion did deliver much-needed consideration to a difficulty affecting each lady on this nation.
“Ladies’s well being is a necessity, not a luxurious,” mentioned Regensteiner.
Michael Abeyta is a normal task reporter/MSJ for CBS Information Colorado. Learn his latest reports or check out his bio and send him an email.
First printed on April 20, 2024 / 4:55 PM MDT
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