🌐 #Parkinson’s isn’t just #Biology 🧠—it’s a global health #Crisis 🌍We show how #AMP-PD 🔗+ #PPMI 🔍+patient-driven tools💪can accelerate #Cures 📈💡 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social #GlobalHealth #NeuroData
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From Lunai Bioworks: from phenoclustering and proteomics to biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease

In a recent webinar hosted by The Michael J. Fox Foundation Data Community of Practice, Victoria Catterson shared how our team uses phenoclustering on PPMI data to uncover Parkinson's disease subtypes and new biomarker leads. #ParkinsonsDisease #Proteomics #PPMI

🌐 #Parkinson’s isn’t just #Biology 🧠—it’s a global health #Crisis 🌍We show how #AMP-PD 🔗+ #PPMI 🔍+patient-driven tools💪can accelerate #Cures 📈💡 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social #GlobalHealth #NeuroData
Join the movement!
www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/14...

PPMI: The Study that's Changing Everything The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) is our landmark study. It gathers information over time to learn more about how brain disease starts and changes and how to stop it. Now it needs ...

I just signed up to help Parkinson’s research because I have a genetic marker that shows a predisposition to getting Parkinson’s later in life. If you have any of the risk factors (act out dreams, loss of smell, genetics), please also come help Parkinson’s research!

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#PPMI's #virtual #health center is its most popular clinic…serving >10k patients/year. PPMI plans to expand virtual appointments by 40%, including weekend & evening hours.

"For some rural communities, having access to #telehealth has made significant changes in their health," said Wallett […]

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"We know that #telehealth cannot bridge every gap; however, the majority of the services #PPMI provides will remain available via the Virtual Health Center & PP Direct, including #MedicationAbortion, #birthcontrol, #HIV services, #UTI treatment, emergency #contraception, #gender-affirming care […]

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Asked if #PlannedParenthood's natl #funding structure needs to change, #PPMI CEO Thornton Greear said: "I think that it needs to be looked at, & what they're able to do. I know that that is actively happening."
When #Marquette clinic's closure was announced, dozens of #patients voiced their […]

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Historically, about 28% of #PPMI's #patients receive #Medicaid benefits.And like many states, #Michigan's Medicaid program doesn't cover #abortion, leaving patients to either pay out-of-pocket or rely on help from #AbortionFunds, which have been struggling financially.
“When patients can't […]

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While the current #TitleX freeze doesn't yet include #PlannedParenthood of #Michigan, #PPMI's chief advocacy officer, Ashlea Phenicie, said it would amount to a loss of about $5.4 million annually, or 16% of its budget.

PPMI didn't shut down any clinics the last time the #Trump admin froze its […]

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Clinics are also bracing for the #Trump admin to again exclude them from #TitleX, the federal #funding for low- & no-cost #FamilyPlanning services, as the previous Trump admin did in 2019.

#PlannedParenthood of #Michigan (#PPMI) says the cuts are painful but necessary for the organization's […]

Interested in cognitive decline in #Parkinsons? Listen to the #ISTAART featuring Dr Dana Pourzinal.
We collaborated with Dana from Uni of Queensland using data from #ICICLE study from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and Uni of Cambridge and #PPMI data to look at congnitive subtypes over time. Link below 👇