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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

You'd think #Alzheimer's is a "politically benign" topic but MAGA fascists spread malignancy. We're fighting AD & the research to cure it. "Thousands of grants, inc. many @ public universities & on topics as politically benign as AD, have been caught in what critics say is an unprecedented slowdown of the American research system that is threatening to upend universities & halt progress toward medical innovations, treatments & cures." PS: why "critics say"? It's a fact.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · One of the country’s leading Alzheimer’s projects is in jeopardyBy Evan Bush
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

MAGA as pro-#dementia: "Gone are ~$10 million in remaining money for a project that inc. 28 clinical & research sites across the country & 1700 participants w/mild cognitive impairments. 'We don’t have the ability to predict who’s going to get worse b/c we won’t be able to see them,' said DeCarli, who’s also co-director of the #Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at #UCDavis. His project also had the goal of placing these participants in treatment & prevention trials.

calmatters.org/education/highe

CalMatters · He spent decades researching dementia. Trump’s DEI purge killed his grant, and dozens moreThe Trump administration has terminated at least 30 health research grants at UC campuses as it targets DEI.
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

The "prodromal" phase of #Alzheimer's can last 15-20 years; that is, the brain is being invaded -- slowly -- before clinical presentations appear (for example, word-finding; memory; spatial disorientation). Check out this explanation of a new blood test whose predictive accuracy seems extraordinary. @erictopol also discusses the benefits of intervening early and addressing #modifiableriskfactors .

Thank you @cobalt for directing me to this article.

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-b

Ground Truths · The Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer's DiseaseBy Eric Topol
#EndAlz
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.

"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."

salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-

#USPol
#Misogyny

Salon.com · MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices
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