New dementia data hub shared by Melinda Power at #MELODEM2025 This resource uses Medicare claims and encounter data to report and map diagnosed incidence and prevalence of dementia www.dementiadatahub.org

Dementia DataHub | NORC at the University of Chicago

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Excellent talk at #MELODEM2025 by @sfackley.bsky.social evaluating amyloid as a surrogate marker with individual level A4 trial data One big take away — 5 years was not enough time to see cognitive decline in the placebo group == a major challenge

Curious about conducting mechanism-driven interventions? CLIMBR is a great tool to support investigators in determining how to test mechanisms, learn more on May 22 !! Details below!! Register: z.umm.edu/CLIMBRwebinar

Dr. Ambar Kulshreshtha is the lead author of a JAMA Network Open study examining undiagnosed cognitive impairment at federally qualified health centers. The study found that 75% of participants had undiagnosed cognitive issues. #dementia #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryCare #SDoH #ADRD #MedSky #PublicHealth

Prevalence of Unrecognized Cognitive Impairment in Federally Qualified Health Centers

This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of unrecognized cognitive impairment among adults aged 65 years and older receiving primary care from federally qualified health centers in Indianapo...

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NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

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This is both ethically distressing and scientifically flawed reasoning for discontinuing needed research to ensure ALL humans are in our science. Alzheimer’s disease does not discriminate and good science includes ALL. Gratitude to @jaceflatt.bsky.social and colleagues for your leadership.

Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He)@jaceflatt.bsky.social · last yr.

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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"VA researchers whose contracts are about to expire . . . will not be renewed, even when funding [through extramural grants is] in place to pay them. Should the VA continue this policy . . . over the months to come, the entire VA research workforce could be decimated."

Aidan Wright@aidangcw.bsky.social · last yr.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

Facts: Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) voted to gut #Medicaid while nearly 1 in 5 of Burchett's constituents and 1 in 4 of Spartz's rely on Medicaid for their healthcare....

First post!! New reading material: We explore minimal clinically important differences for function in AD/ADRD trials + consider opportunities to improve outcome measure sensitivity and attention to the priorities of those living with dementia alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science

The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%

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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

The new NIH policy for indirect costs going forward is capped at 15%. This is forever going to alter the science ecosystem, upending and destroying a number of programs at universities across the country. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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