MELINDA FRENCH GATES LAUNCHES $100 MILLION PUSH FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates will invest $50 million in a women's health fund that aims to close a vast gender gap in medical research, she said on Wednesday.

French Gates, whose Pivotal group joins the non-profit Wellcome Leap in the partnership worth $100 million overall, pointed to data showing only 1% of pharmaceutical research funding went to women's health outside cancer in 2024.

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