First Lady Jill Biden visited Research Triangle Park on Wednesday to discuss the Biden administration’s efforts to prioritize research and funding for women’s health.

In his remarks, Biden said medical research has historically excluded women.

“If you ask a woman in America about her health care, she probably has a story to tell,” she says.

On Frontier RTP, Jill Biden discussed a variety of health issues that need more research, including osteoporosis, menopause, and heart disease.

The first lady said heart attack symptoms look different for women and men and are often unrecognized, even though heart attacks are the leading cause of death in women.

“We, and so many women, are struggling with health conditions for which there are no answers or solutions,” Biden said. “We just don’t know how to prevent, detect, or treat diseases that only affect women, or that affect women more than men, or that affect men differently.”

Biden also mentioned an executive order her husband signed earlier this week. Democratic President Joe Biden, who is seeking re-election this year, launched the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, pointing to the historic lack of funding for women’s health issues.

The executive order increases funding to improve research and data collection across various government agencies, including new research on midlife women’s health, including conditions such as menopause, arthritis, heart attacks, and osteoporosis. and other unmet needs.

The first lady said Joe Biden is the first president to make women’s health research a top priority in the White House.

“Together we can envision a new future for health care, where women leave the clinic with more answers than questions, where women and girls don’t have to worry about it all being in their heads or just stress.” “It’s a future where we don’t have to hear that,” she said.

Jill Biden was introduced by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper during a visit to North Carolina, where the governor spoke about his administration’s efforts to improve health care for women, including paid parental leave and making it easier for women to work while pregnant. He called for efforts to do so. In 2019, Cooper signed an executive order expanding paid parental leave options for state employees.

Jill Biden’s visit on Wednesday comes less than a month after that of Vice President Kamala Harris, with tickets sold for up to $100,000 each for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign. It will be held one week before the fundraising event.

North Carolina is once again expected to be a key battleground state in the presidential election, but it is not the only major race on the ballot. Democrats also hope to maintain control of the governor’s mansion and break the veto-proof Republican supermajority in the state Legislature, while Republicans flip key Democratic-held positions such as governor and attorney general. I hope that. The Biden campaign is expected to focus on North Carolina in the coming months, similar to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.

A WRAL News poll released last week found Trump leading Biden 50-45 among all voters in North Carolina. The gender gap between the two candidates was large, with Trump leading by 14 points among men and Biden by 4 points among women.

One silver lining for Biden from these numbers is that they show women are more likely to vote than men this year.

The poll, conducted in partnership with SurveyUSA from March 3 to March 9 among 598 likely North Carolina voters, has a confidence interval of 4.9 percentage points. Confidence intervals are similar to margins of error, but take into account more factors and are considered by some polling organizations to be a more accurate measure of statistical certainty.

The poll found that health care and the economy are the two issues voters across the state are most concerned about when it comes to candidates. The same was especially true for women. When asked to rate their interest in different issues on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most urgent, 43% of women rated the economy a 10 out of 10. . 42% said the same about healthcare. Health care was far less of a concern to male voters, and male voters expressed more urgency about immigration.

Among specific medical issues, 26% of women said mental health was their biggest concern. Additionally, 35% cited abortion as their top concern, nearly twice as many as male voters, who expressed the highest level of urgency about how the election would affect future abortion laws. was only 18%.

Finally, while very few male and female voters said they had not yet decided who they would vote for in the presidential race, women were more than twice as likely as men to say they were undecided in the gubernatorial race. . One in five female voters remains undecided in the race between Republican candidate Mark Robinson and Democratic candidate Josh Stein. Cooper is term limited and cannot run for three consecutive terms as governor.