Protect Women's Health & Restore Funding To the Nurses Health Study

I am your constituent and I am furious that Trump and his hand picked anti-science team at HHS have cancelled the Nurses’ Health Study and its companion study for men, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study at Harvard. The 50 year National Nurses study has identified early links between cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease, and between postmenopausal obesity and breast cancer. Also, research on the impact of diet on health in the Nurses' Health Studies has informed dietary recommendations, including national dietary guidelines. Look, research into women’s health lags behind research into healthcare for men. Medical textbooks cite white male examples 85% of the time. Women’s health will improve when it is studied. I want you to make sure that 50 year Nurses’ Health Study and its companion study for men, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study at Harvard are funded. You can do it in law to help protect all of us. I mean, that is why we sent you there isn’t it? Thank you. Here is a link to the Nurses Health Study web page for you https://nurseshealthstudy.org/about-nhs/key-contributions-scientific-knowledge and a full list of the benefits they have achieved is here, https://nurseshealthstudy.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/table%20v2.pdf.