This is not cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse." Pure and simple, this is undermining the science necessary to deliver better means of preventing, diagnosing, treating, and eventually curing diseases like #Alzheimers, #cancer, #diabetes, #stroke, #glaucoma, etc.

#dementia #mentalhealth #NIH #science

If you've left the #NIH, @spichaksimon.bsky.social wants to hear from you for our reporting on the impacts of gutting U.S. #Alzheimer's / #dementia / #brainhealth infrastructure.

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@spichaksimon.bsky.social with the story

Scientists autopsied the brains of 28 people in New Mexico and saw surging rates of plastic are making their way into brain tissue.

Especially as the U.S. govt downsizes the EPA and decreases environmental regulation, what does this mean for cognitive health?

www.beingpatient.com/rising-micro...

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.

This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...

REPORT: An internal #NIH memo today directed agency staff to resume issuing frozen grants.

www.beingpatient.com/trump-nih-fu...

Studying a diverse population ensures that scientists get the complete picture of how a disease works and that diagnostic tools and treatments will work for everyone — not just a selective subset of the population that doesn’t accurately represent the larger group.

#healthequity #science #NIH

Unsettling:’ Federal DEI Ban a ‘Step Backward’ for Alzheimer's Trials

The latest from @alexmarvar.bsky.social and myself in @beingpatient.bsky.social

www.beingpatient.com/trump-dei-ba...

What a rollercoaster

How — in the midst of the Trump Administration's freeze on comms and other work across Health and Human Services departments — did news of an FDA Alzheimer's drug approval break through?

@spichaksimon.bsky.social with the story about #Leqembi's dosage update: www.beingpatient.com/fda-alzheime...

“If anything about dementia is treatable, it’s these behavioral and
psychological symptoms.”

A Tufts psychiatrist explains the science behind dementia's behavioral symptoms.

www.beingpatient.com/dementias-be...

Trump ordered stoppages on comms, grant applications, & more at the U.S. agencies that oversee medical research & drug regulation.

@spichaksimon.bsky.social asked scientists — Is this normal?? And what could it mean for #Alzheimers research?

#dei #nih #fda
www.beingpatient.com/nih-grinds-t...

My coverage of advance requests for MAiD.

Health Canada kicked off a public consultation in response to Quebec allowing for these requests in contravention of current federal law.

Axsome is planning to file for approval of its Alzheimer's agitation drug. But experts say the drug doesn't actually work.

My latest for Being Patient with comment from @ewidera.bsky.social and @profrobhoward.bsky.social

www.beingpatient.com/axsome-agita...

In recent #Alzheimers #antiamyloid drug trials, drugmakers were accused of knowing which volunteers had a higher risk of ARIA (brain bleeds).

Here's why the companies didn't disclose that risk—and whether they did the right thing.

By @spichaksimon.bsky.social
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