LONDON (AP) — United States and Monaco striker Folarin Balogun will undergo surgery on his recently dislocated shoulder.
Speaking ahead of his team's Champions League game at Arsenal on Wednesday, Monaco coach Adi Hütter said he did not know how long Balogun will be out for after the operation.
The forward was sidelined for about two months with the injury and returned to competition at the end of November. But he took a hit during a recent 2-1 loss to Marseille in the French league and had been in pain since, sitting out training sessions last week.
Balogun was in good form earlier this season, scoring for a third straight game as Monaco won 2-1 at Rennes on Oct. 5 before leaving the match with an injury. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and had to withdraw from a couple of matches with the U.S. team.
Balogun, born in New York and raised in London, signed a five-year contract for Monaco after leaving Arsenal last year.
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Monaco's Folarin Balogun, center, Benfica's Orkun Kokcu, left, and Nicolas Otamendi fight for the ball during a Champions League opening phase soccer match at the Louis II stadium in Monaco, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is “so proud” that a women's health research initiative he launched last year at his wife's urging has already invested nearly $1 billion because a healthy female population improves U.S. prosperity.
“That's a fact,” he said in closing remarks at the first White House Conference on Women's Health Research. “We haven't gotten that through to the other team yet," Biden said, referencing President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration.
Trump's three conservative nominees to the Supreme Court from his first term as president voted to overturn a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats campaigned on reproductive rights and women's health issues in this year's elections.
Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump's transition team, said the president-elect will keep his promise to improve health in the U.S.
“President Trump campaigned on making America healthy again for ALL Americans including men, women, and children, and he will deliver on that promise," Leavitt said in an email.
Women make up half of the U.S. population, about 168 million people, but medical research into their unique health circumstances has largely been underfunded and understudied, officials have said.
Jill Biden has said she brought the idea for the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research to the president after Maria Shriver, herself a women's health advocate and member of the influential Kennedy political family, brought it to her.
The first lady told the researchers, advocates, and business and philanthropic leaders attending the conference that she will keep pressing the issue after she leaves her role.
“My work doesn't stop in January when Joe and I leave this house,” she said. “I will keep building alliances, like the ones that brought us here today, and I will keep pushing for funding for innovative research.”
The first lady said the U.S. economy loses about $1.8 billion in working time every year because of how menopause affects women. And she is interested in learning more about extreme morning sickness during pregnancy.
“I heard this a couple weeks ago and I was particularly interested because my own granddaughter was going through the same thing, because we're going to be great-grandparents,” Jill Biden said.
Granddaughter Naomi Biden Neal and her husband, Peter Neal, are expecting their first child.
Since its launch, the women's health research initiative has attracted nearly $1 billion in federal funding, including from the Defense Department and National Institutes of Health.
“In one year, everybody in this room kicked butt,” Shriver said at the conference. “Not until the Bidens did anyone ever think to make women's health and research a priority for the federal government, so let that sink in.”
President Biden closed the conference with a nod to the influence of his wife, who, after her remarks, sat in the front row beside their daughter Ashley Biden, who runs a women's shelter in Philadelphia.
‘You stepped up kid," Biden told the first lady. Then he told the audience, “In case you wonder, when she speaks, I listen.”
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive for the White House Conference on Women's Health Research event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
First lady Jill Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden, left, with first lady Jill Biden in the audience, center, and daughter Ashley Biden, right, walks out of the East Room of the White House after speaking at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
