NanCcan
@nanccan.bsky.social
Mom, Wife, Grandma, Teacher, Friend. I did it my way even when Myalgic Encephalomyelitis forced me to slow down and rest (pacing yourself is extremely difficult when there's so much you still want to do!!!).
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Genetic Literacy Project: The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
'Long COVID may well lead to a broader health crisis, but it is also a scientific opportunity'
'It also renews attention to post-viral illnesses such as ME/CFS'
geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/09/04/t...
'Long COVID may well lead to a broader health crisis, but it is also a scientific opportunity'
'It also renews attention to post-viral illnesses such as ME/CFS'
geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/09/04/t...
The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
OVID-19 has not disappeared. Cases are on the rise in at least 15 states, and for the first time it is hitting the hardest in red states, where vaccine
geneticliteracyproject.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Genetic Literacy Project: The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
'Long COVID may well lead to a broader health crisis, but it is also a scientific opportunity'
'It also renews attention to post-viral illnesses such as ME/CFS'
geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/09/04/t...
'Long COVID may well lead to a broader health crisis, but it is also a scientific opportunity'
'It also renews attention to post-viral illnesses such as ME/CFS'
geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/09/04/t...
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"Immune cfRNA deconvolution revealed differences in platelet-derived cfRNA between cases and controls, as well as elevated levels of plasmacytoid dendritic, monocyte, and T cell–derived cfRNA"
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME
New just published in PNAS!
Circulating cell-free RNA signatures for the characterization and diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Anne E. Gardella et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ME/CFS #Diagnostics
@cornellmecfs.bsky.social
Circulating cell-free RNA signatures for the characterization and diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Anne E. Gardella et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ME/CFS #Diagnostics
@cornellmecfs.bsky.social
Circulating cell-free RNA signatures for the characterization and diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome | PNAS
People living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experience
heterogeneous and debilitating symptoms that lack suffici...
www.pnas.org
August 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Last year, Missouri voters approved paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage by 58%. Republicans just enacted legislation eliminating sick leave and automatic updates to the minimum wage that had been in place since 2006. www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
Missouri's governor just signed a law repealing the paid sick leave passed by voters last year
Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn Proposition A, passed by 58% of Missouri voters in November 2024, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also repeals annual inflation adjustments for the min...
www.kcur.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Last year, Missouri voters approved paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage by 58%. Republicans just enacted legislation eliminating sick leave and automatic updates to the minimum wage that had been in place since 2006. www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
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🧵 1/ 🚨 Congress slashed $859 MILLION from a key research program that includes funding for ME/CFS and other critical health conditions.
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
June 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🧵 1/ 🚨 Congress slashed $859 MILLION from a key research program that includes funding for ME/CFS and other critical health conditions.
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
Well-written article that needs to be shared even if, like me, you have no trans people in your immediate circle.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-modera...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-modera...
The Moderate Case Against Trans Youth Healthcare Bans
The disinformation on transgender youth healthcare is extreme, and many people hold weakly held opinions on that care. I talk about how to move the needle with those who are uncertain.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Well-written article that needs to be shared even if, like me, you have no trans people in your immediate circle.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-modera...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-modera...
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This is awful and I'm sorry for laughing at the delivery
You can’t make this up: House Republicans *snuck in a tanning bed tax break*—in the same damn bill that slashes Medicaid, shutters hospitals, and steals beds from cancer patients.
No wonder they vote in the dead of night.🙄
@fernandez.house.gov
No wonder they vote in the dead of night.🙄
@fernandez.house.gov
May 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is awful and I'm sorry for laughing at the delivery
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We are winding down our day of #MillionsMissing action but just starting a week focused on creating change! WOW! You are blowing us away with the amazing shares on social media and we are beyond grateful to all who showed up in person in DC and at actions around the world.
#DisabilitySOS
#DisabilitySOS
May 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
We are winding down our day of #MillionsMissing action but just starting a week focused on creating change! WOW! You are blowing us away with the amazing shares on social media and we are beyond grateful to all who showed up in person in DC and at actions around the world.
#DisabilitySOS
#DisabilitySOS
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Seventeen years ago, I got a virus and never recovered (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ME). The 2026 budget completely scraps the CDC's research on my disease. Today on ME Awareness Day, we're asking to save our science and save our support. #MEaction #MEawareness #DisabilitySOS #MillionsMissing 💙
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Seventeen years ago, I got a virus and never recovered (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ME). The 2026 budget completely scraps the CDC's research on my disease. Today on ME Awareness Day, we're asking to save our science and save our support. #MEaction #MEawareness #DisabilitySOS #MillionsMissing 💙
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What a great job @thesicktimes.bsky.social did covering the #MillionsMissing protest at Washington DC yesterday!
Quoted: me, Laurie Jones, Shaina Coleman, David Burke
Lots of wonderful photos.
Check it out and please do share!
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/12/m...
Quoted: me, Laurie Jones, Shaina Coleman, David Burke
Lots of wonderful photos.
Check it out and please do share!
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/12/m...
“Millions Missing” protest at the Capitol demands myalgic encephalomyelitis funding, social support - The Sick Times
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), Long COVID, and other chronic disease advocates demonstrated outside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. Organized by the advocacy group #MEAction...
thesicktimes.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
What a great job @thesicktimes.bsky.social did covering the #MillionsMissing protest at Washington DC yesterday!
Quoted: me, Laurie Jones, Shaina Coleman, David Burke
Lots of wonderful photos.
Check it out and please do share!
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/12/m...
Quoted: me, Laurie Jones, Shaina Coleman, David Burke
Lots of wonderful photos.
Check it out and please do share!
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/12/m...
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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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CNN: 'First on CNN: Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says'
'“This must end. Congress, the scientific community, and the American people must stand up and fight back.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...
'“This must end. Congress, the scientific community, and the American people must stand up and fight back.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...
First on CNN: Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says | CNN
A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain sci...
www.cnn.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
CNN: 'First on CNN: Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says'
'“This must end. Congress, the scientific community, and the American people must stand up and fight back.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...
'“This must end. Congress, the scientific community, and the American people must stand up and fight back.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls
As a person with M.E., it will consume about 1/4 of my daily energy budget to make these calls (some days a larger percentage), but no one can afford to be silent these days.
As a person with M.E., it will consume about 1/4 of my daily energy budget to make these calls (some days a larger percentage), but no one can afford to be silent these days.
5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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March 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls
As a person with M.E., it will consume about 1/4 of my daily energy budget to make these calls (some days a larger percentage), but no one can afford to be silent these days.
As a person with M.E., it will consume about 1/4 of my daily energy budget to make these calls (some days a larger percentage), but no one can afford to be silent these days.
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