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Diabetes News: Hope and Fear via Bluesky [1]
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Date: 2025-02-19
I don’t know why I didn’t look for posts about diabetes on Bluesky until just yesterday, but here they are today. As you might expect, it’s a Bad News/Good News story, with radical advances in understanding and treatment, but denial and obstruction from the Usual Suspects.
I have made a List of diabetes researchers with Bluesky accounts, and I am considering making a feed for the list.
Diabetes @diabetes.bsky.social
@diabeteschat.bsky.social
@diabresearch-dzd.bsky.social
@thelancetendo.bsky.social
@ucsfdc.bsky.social
Good News
x I have funding through at least 2031 for postdoctoral researchers with expertise in islet biology or cell-based therapies for, or modelling of, diabetes. Bring your expertise to a country that values it. 🇨🇦 Contact info on my website. — Francis Lynn (@nictitate.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Bad News
Ask your MAGA friends, if any, whether this is what they voted for.
x A plea from the American Diabetes Association on behalf of millions of Americans with diabetes, including me. I have a strong family history of diabetes, and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1996. You can read the whole statement on Instagram at @amdiabetesassn
[image or embed] — Susan Brubaker Knapp (@susanbrubakerknapp.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
x Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Diseases. “Once again, President Trump and Elon Musk are acting in direct violation of the law. Alzheimer’s, dementias, ALS, Diabetes, Mental Health disorders, opioid abuse, genetic diseases fox5sandiego.com/news/trumps-...
[image or embed] — Lydia Cornell Official (@lydiacornell.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
x Per a source with knowledge: The Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee meetings have been canceled until further notice. These include reps from across HHS as well as from the Veterans Health Administration, USDA, and Defense. It was created by Congress in 1974. — Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Noted on Bluesky in posts with embedding turned off, so their authors get no credit here.
Health agencies lose staff members in key areas as Trump firings set in
Termination letters landed in the mailboxes of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health over the weekend, as the Trump administration moved ahead with firings announced verbally Friday.
Orlando Sentinel, paywalled: Florida could lose millions in medical research dollars, sparking fears that lab lights will ‘go out’
"It is going to affect U.S. universities and UCF and all of us in a very dramatic way," said professor Talat Rahman. FL institutions have nearly 2,000 NIH-supported projects worth more than $1 billion, supporting research into cancer, spinal cord injuries, diabetes and many other medical conditions. Reducing that funding could grind important projects to a halt.
x There are links to the lawsuit in this article and helpful information on who to contact to stop it. We can't let these emboldened Republicans go after people with disabilities.
dianeravitch.net/2025/02/13/1...
[image or embed] — Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
x Trump’s Executive Order also led to lay offs of 950+ staff of the Indian Health Service (IHS). Native people have the highest risk for developing Diabetes and Heart Disease. Our life expectancy is the lowest of any group. IHS is already 50% underfunded. This is genocide. — Emmy Scott (@emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
x ‼️ Russia: “Minister in Ivanovo region says cancer and diabetes patients are to blame for lack of medicines” If only there were signs that this exact thing would happen, at that it’s actually the government’s fault. Oh wait, THERE IS! www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/02/17/m...
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Production Note
Bluesky searches were glitching last night, so I couldn’t get as much as I wanted from them. But there are still other sources.
Elsewhere
Detroit area teen takes part in groundbreaking type 1 diabetes study using 100-year-old TB vaccine
Dr. Denise Faustman - originally from Michigan, now practicing at Mass General and Harvard in Boston, has made it her life's work to find a cure or at least a new treatment, using a very old drug. "Using this 125-year-old drug called BCG. It's a micro organism. The drug was developed for tuberculosis," she said. After years of research into people with type 1 diabetes, Dr. Faustman discovered their so-called bad white blood cells were hurting the pancreas - and there was another problem. "We found type one diabetics have white blood cells that eat fats. And guess what, your white blood cells eat sugar," she said. In adult trials using this old tb drug, those bad white blood cells started behaving.
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