From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— WARF is touting a new method for preventing or reducing the rate of type 1 diabetes in children by supplementing their diets.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation calls the innovation a top licensing prospect in its healthcare portfolio of UW-Madison research. It was created by Michael MacDonald, a scientist affiliated with the university’s Department of Pediatrics.
He identified several naturally occurring molecules that can be given to infants between 4 and 6 months of age who are at higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes. The molecules modify insulin to keep the patient’s immune system from recognizing the protein as foreign, according to WARF’s overview.
When delivered at this key developmental stage, the supplement “should prevent the destruction of the pancreatic cells” in children, reducing their likelihood of having the life-changing condition, the group says.
In the patent application for the supplement, authors noted the burden involved with caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, as they can no longer produce insulin — a critical substance for the body to function. Kids with this condition need daily insulin administered to keep their blood sugar at normal levels, as well as frequent blood testing.
The scientists noted maintaining normal regulation of blood sugar in these children “is still imperfect and laborious” for their families.
“While methods of diabetes management are well established, there are no established methods to prevent or reduce the rate of type 1 diabetes, particularly in children,” they wrote.
WARF says MacDonald also created a synthetic insulin analog to prevent the condition, which can achieve similar results.
— Vice President JD Vance sought to paint Dems as the “pro-fraud party” during a visit to Milwaukee focused on the Trump administration’s efforts to combat healthcare fraud.
At one point, he displayed a picture of Markita Barnes, a Milwaukee prenatal care provider convicted last year of pocketing $2.3 million in Medicaid funds, and said congressional Dems “fought” to give money to Barnes.
Vance yesterday also called Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ refusal to turn over SNAP enrollment data “borderline criminal.”
In remarks to reporters and guests at the Wisconsin National Guard’s 128th Air Refueling Wing, Vance said the guv’s refusal to provide the enrollment data for the food stamps program meant the federal government could not check if immigrants were accessing the program illegally.
“If you are administering a program collecting billions and billions of dollars and if you don’t check if the people receiving those funds are actually entitled to it, you are perpetuating a scam,” Vance said.
“The only plausible explanation for that is he cares more about protecting illegal aliens than he does the good citizens of Wisconsin,” he later added.
Ahead of Vance’s visit, Wisconsin Dems criticized the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers like Tiffany and U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Janesville, for cutting funding for Medicaid and SNAP via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“JD Vance may be coming to Milwaukee today, but he’s not coming to bring solutions, he’s bringing rhetoric, he’s coming to celebrate and congratulate two members of Congress who have been their rubber stamps and their partners while they do this detrimental work,” said state Rep. Kalan Haywood, D-Milwaukee.
See more coverage of Vance’s remarks.
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