Medicaid Vigil, FDA AI Adoption, Lyme Research

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I was planning to make this box about one Recent Study That confirmed that some birds form friendships. But as a decayed Catholic who spends too much of her time watching college basketball (shout-out xavier university), I am * excited * that we get a pope who apparently the ball knows.

Precious frozen spit

The emotional, financial and scientific consequences of the dismantling of the National Institutes of Health in the Trump administration is starting to come into the picture.

Take the sorrow from the latest story of Megan Molteni: Jay Tischfield supervises one of the largest DNA banks in the world, full of saliva samples to find genetic connections between substance use and psychological disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. But now, after receiving an e-mail from NIH last week, the five-year subsidy that feeds these freezers will end prematurely. Similar scenes of chaos have played in laboratories throughout the country in recent months.

The economic count for this chaos is surprising. According to a separate month, the Trump administration has canceled more than $ 1.4 billion in NIH fairs in just one month report Published on Thursday. The figure is imperfect and is probably a chassis, but points to an unprecedented disruption of science in the US

The two centers that saw the biggest cuts on their portfolio were the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparitions and the National Institute of Nursing Research. Many of the subsidies canceled were training fairs that support researchers from early career and are sometimes intended to promote diversity in sciences. Stat’s Anil Oza has the complete description.

FDA Speedrunning ai -adoption

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to quickly roll out a generative AI model at the end of June to help scientific reviews throughout the agency.

FDA commissioner Marty Makary called it a ‘historical first’ and said on Thursday that the AI ​​tool will be used in all assessment offices of the agency, after the completion of pilot tests whose scope and strictness were not specified. It will be a high bet test of the use of technology in checking products used in the care of millions of Americans.

Experts have warned against taking over the technology for clinical purposes. The first meeting of the FDAs Digital Health Advisory Committee mentioned a lot of the risks of generative AI in November – including hallucinations, output variability and privacy problems – that should encourage testing before complete acceptance.

The announcement put many questions. What is automated? How will federal officials guarantee the accuracy of the model? My colleagues Casey Ross and Katie Palmer have the answer to these questions and more.

24-hour Medicaid-Wake

Hundreds of proponents of disabled people, Medicaid users, families and politicians gathered on Wednesday outside the American Capitol for a 24-hour wake focused on a simple message: Protection.

The federal health program deals with many of the most vulnerable population in the country, including children and people with disabilities. Republicans have focused on cuts, with reference to ‘waste, fraud and abuse’, because President Trump took on, but the popularity of Medicaid in Americans has complicated their efforts.

The wake exuberant Dozens of speakers who explain why Medicaid was crucial for their health and well -being or for a loved one. Nicole Jorwic, Chief Program Officer at Care Allegendy, spoke about her brother, Chris, who is autistic and is on Medicaid.

He told her: “Medicaid … is a life boat for people like me. Medicaid gives my life color. Today it meant time in the community with my niece, cousin and supporting employee. Every day this means freedom. We must protect Medicaid to protect that freedom and independence for all the disabled people.”

Risk factors for high blood pressure in children

What makes children sick? For decades of research, the health of the parents has emphasized as a key factor, but specific drivers are more difficult to locate. A New study From 12,480 mothers, obesity connects before pregnancy, diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy to higher blood pressure in their descendants. High blood pressure in children can later lead to greater problems, including cardiovascular disease.

Researchers discovered that these three cardiometabolic risk factors – more than half of the pregnant people in the US – were associated with a 4.88 percentile point higher systolic blood pressure (the top value in a lecture) and 1.90 percentile higher diastolic blood pressure in their children, respective. Some associations were stronger in babies who were assigned feminine at birth and in black mother-baby pairs. Other studies have drawn similar conclusions, which enhances the importance of the in-utero environment during pregnancy during the design of well-being during the lifetime. – Isabella Cueto

Lyme research should give priority to the quality of life, not an infection onion jump

Researchers must first focus on improving the lives of people affected by Lyme infection-associated chronic disease instead of investigating the still-unknown mechanism behind the persistent state, a new one report Drifting from Thursday.

The recommendations of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine ask scientists to dive into available evidence so that they can investigate treatments to alleviate the fatigue, pain and brain mist that influence 10% to 20% of people after being infected by the disease transferred by ticks. There are no validated treatments that manage or cure these symptoms, they look like what people with Long Covid and ME/CFS also describe.

The researchers propose to coordinate new studies from Long Covid and ME/CFS to define tools and statistics; Creating biobanks and patient registers; And building a data coordinating center.

“People who live with this condition deserve to have information with which they can both make informed decisions about their own health and safe and effective treatments available to them,” said Kester, chairman of the report of the report, in a statement. – Liz Cooney

What we read

• ‘She will fall through the cracks’: parents of children with disabilities for new reality, The 19th

• Migrants skip medical care, fear ice, doctors say, New York Times

• You will be lied to proteins, Vox

• At Republicans, Democrats are urging to focus on Medicare Advantage ‘Upcoding’ instead of cutting medicaid, Stat

• Exclusive: Documents reveal how NIH climate studies will learn, Nature