Studying These Young Alzheimer's Patients Led To Breakthroughs. Trump Cut The Funding: NPR

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Studying these young Alzheimer's patients led to breakthroughs. Trump cut the funding, NPR, May 7, 2026.
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Some of the most important studies of potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease rely on a group of participants who know they may never fully reap the benefits. "It's not for us," says June Ward, 64, who carries a rare gene mutation that virtually guarantees she will get Alzheimer's in the next few years.

"It's for my sister's children and their children, so that they won't have the same 'nothing' to choose from."

Ward is a member of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN), which includes more than 200 families at more than 40 sites in 18 countries. All the families who carry gene mutations that cause symptoms of Alzheimer's to appear in middle age, or even earlier.

The families' willingness to serve as research subjects over the past two decades has allowed scientists to make key discoveries about how Alzheimer's begins, and how certain drugs may slow its progress. Yet DIAN, run by WashU Medicine in St. Louis, faces an uncertain future amid cuts and delays in federal funding.

It is currently maintaining only essential functions while awaiting word on critical grants from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. The network that's been built up, the years that have gone into the training and the relationships — without funding, all of that would fall apart," says Dr. Tammie Benzinger, a professor of radiology at WashU who oversees brain imaging of DIAN participants...

More,
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5759696/early-alzheimers-families-network-risk

[BurnDoubt]

1. It's all about the Greatification.

Deplorable is a mental deficiency incubated under Red Hats.
We don’t need a study for that.

[tanyev]

2. Trump's position is why bother treating when you can just deny, deny, deny?

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3. Correct, and it's a horror..

[Sweet Rosie Red]

4. My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son 'Should Just Die'

“……..“Hey, pal,” Donald said. “How’s everything going?”

“Good,” I said. “I appreciate your meeting with us.”

“Sure, happy to do it.”

He sounded interested and even concerned. I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong.

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.” ….”
https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/

To this murderous monster, human life means nothing. Covid deaths, bombing fishermen and little girls schools, sending ICE out to beat and rip people out of their lives and families is just a sadistic game he enjoys. He may have human form, but he is a monster.