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“I’m so grateful to all of my fans and friends for their support of the Women’s Heart Alliance and this campaign,” Barbra Streisand told Hollywood on the Potomac prior to her concert at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. “Your donations bring us closer to gender equality, and enable more progress in fighting the #1 killer of women, heart disease.”
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Donations will benefit the Women’s Heart Alliance and Cedars-Sinai’s Medical Center. The Women’s Heart Alliance is an advocacy force in Washington, urging Congress to boost biomedical research funding and ensure research looks at differences sex and gender differences in medical research, components of legislation currently under consideration in Congress.
In a personal message on her CrowdRise page, Ms. Streisand said, “In addition to being an artist, I’m a passionate advocate for gender equality. Years ago, I learned that more women die from heart disease each year than men due to stunning gender inequality in the research and treatment of women with heart disease. Because of this, I co-founded a non-profit organization, the Women’s Heart Alliance, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Our work focuses on improving diagnosis and treatment of women with heart disease and advocating for policy changes to increase research and funding for women’s heart disease. Your support is critical to savings the lives of so many women we love—our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and friends.”
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Guests enjoying music from her six-decade’s career included Chris Matthews, Al Hunt & Judy Woodruff, Madeleine Albright, Rep. Donna Edwards, Anita & Tim McBride, Amb. Esther Coopersmith, Melanne and Phil Verveer, Bob Barnett & Rita Braver, Michael Kors, Senator Markey and Maureen Dowd. “This is what the evening is about,” The Way We Were star said.
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Ms. Streisand sent a letter to all U.S. Senators this week to encourage swift passage of the Advancing NIH Strategic Planning and Representation in Medical Research Act (S. 2745). The bipartisan legislation will lead to more prevention options, better treatment outcomes and, ultimately, cures for both women and men through strengthened analysis of and reporting on sex and gender differences in medical research. The full letter here.
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In addition, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Perelman authored an op-ed published in The Hill with the same message to encourage the Senate to pass the bipartisan legislation, which will lead to more prevention options, better treatment outcomes and, ultimately, cures for both women and men through strengthened analysis of and reporting on sex and gender differences in medical research.
