Meghana Gadgil

Bay Area friends, please help me amplify to your networks:

NIDDK at 75 Years of Age: Great Triumphs but Concerns for Its Longevity Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, John B. Buse, Elizabeth Selvin, David A. D’Alessio; NIDDK at 75 Years of Age: Great Triumphs but Concerns for Its Lon

Special issue of the journals Diabetes Care and Diabetes celebrating the work of NIDDK for 75 years and with concern and trepidation for an uncertain future.
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

@psatishmd.bsky.social I appreciate working with you on this!

Thankful for the opportunity to contribute to this important work.

If you're keeping track of the long list of things this admin's done that flies in the face of MAHA, censoring and ultimately losing the top intramural nutrition scientist studying food processing and health is definitely towards the top.

Well said!

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

“Improving public health”

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck.

This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever.

AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH.

A change that can improve health worldwide.

Outstanding resource

#vaccineswork

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.

Until today.