The Trump administration has reversed course and restored financial support for a decades-old study on women’s health.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the study, called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), in the early 1990s to learn about women’s health needs since most medical studies had been conducted on men.

WHI researchers were notified earlier this week that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) planned to terminate contracts in September with the initiative’s four regional centers in California, New York, Ohio and North Carolina.

The Trump administration chose to cut the initiative’s funding because the National Institutes of Health “initially exceeded its internal target for contract reductions,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon........

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