Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health – The 19th

President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order directing the most comprehensive set of actions ever taken by the president’s office to expand and improve research on women’s health. In a statement, the president and First Lady Jill Biden also announced more than 20 new actions and commitments by a wide range of federal agencies for research on issues that emerge across a woman’s lifespan, from maternal health outcomes and mental health challenges to autoimmune diseases and menopause.

The announcement follows the November creation of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, led by Jill Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council. Currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends only 10.8 percent of its overall funding on women’s health research, a figure that includes conditions specific to women and those that predominantly affect women…

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‘A narrative of triumph’: a powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement – Stigmatis

‘We’ve avoided confronting the weight of our history in ways that have undermined our ability to achieve the sort of progress and justice that many of us want’ … an image of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Photograph: Equal Justice Initiative

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is an expansive new experience that aims to pay an honest tribute to courage and resilience as an American equivalent to a Holocaust memorial…The morning after our whipping, we all had to go to work, as if nothing had happened. I was so sore I could hardly do anything,” recalled James Matthews, who, like many enslaved people after a severe whipping, ran away into the woods. “I have known a great many who never came back; they were whipped so bad they never got well, but died in the woods, and their bodies have been found by people hunting. White men come in sometimes with collars and chains and bells, which they had taken from dead slaves. They just take off their irons and then leave them, and think no more about them…”

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La industria tecnológica del mundo depende prácticamente de una sola carretera: la que conduce a la mina de Spruce Prine

Alejandro Alcolea Uno de los materiales clave de nuestro planeta, aunque no lo parezca, es la arena. Está compuesta por multitud de minerales y …

La industria tecnológica del mundo depende prácticamente de una sola carretera: la que conduce a la mina de Spruce Prine