How The Medical System Is Failing People With Down Syndrome And Alzheimer ’s Disease
As they live longer, up to ninety percent of people with Down Syndrome will have Alzheimer ’s Disease. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 10, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Howard Gleckman, Senior Contributor Tags: Personal Finance /personal-finance Money /money Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare investing personalfinance Source Type: news

What are Treatments for Hallux Valgus
Discussion Hallux valgus (HV) is commonly called a bunion. The word bunion comes from Greek meaning “turnip.” The great toe is seen to be pronated with a prominent first metatarsal head which can be swollen and painful, which can look like a turnip. They are also called metatarsus primus varus, or metatarsus primus adductus. Angulation can occur in other joints such as at the 5th metatarsal head and is sometimes called “bunionette” or tailor’s bunion. The cause “…for the pathological deformity is considered to be metatarsus primus varus… but there often are other anatomic abn...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 7, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

What Is the Life Expectancy of a Person With Down Syndrome?
Title: What Is the Life Expectancy of a Person With Down Syndrome?Category: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 1/19/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/19/2022 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - January 19, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

NIDCR's Winter 2021 E-Newsletter
Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. NIDCR's Winter 2021 E-Newsletter In this issue: NIDCR News Funding Opportunities & Related Notices NIH/HHS News Subscribe to NIDCR News Science Advances   NIDCR News NIDCR Major Announcement: Save the Date! Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 21, at 1pm for a major webcast announcement from NIDCR. Look for log-in instructions, coming in a separate NIDCR email next week. Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque Joins NIDCR as Deputy Director NIDCR welcomed Jennifer Webster-...
Source: NIDCR Science News - December 8, 2021 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

Dementia and Down’s Syndrome: The key link between Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s
NOT EVERYONE with Down's Syndrome develops Alzheimer's, but around 50 percent of people with the disorder develop memory loss in their 50s and 60s. Why are people with Down's Syndrome at an increased risk of dementia? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'World-leading' Down's syndrome bill clears first hurdle in Parliament
Liam Fox's plan to ensure lifelong care looks set to become law in England early next year. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

What Chromosome Causes Down Syndrome?
Title: What Chromosome Causes Down Syndrome?Category: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 10/6/2021 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - October 6, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Key part of Arizona genetic-abnormality abortion law blocked
A federal judge has blocked a key portion of a new Arizona law that would have let prosecutors bring felony charges against doctors who knowingly terminate pregnancies solely because the fetuses have a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Woman with Down syndrome loses challenge of UK abortion law
Two top British judges on Thursday rejected a legal challenge from a woman with Down syndrome over a national abortion law that allows... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Woman with Down syndrome loses UK abortion law challenge
A woman with Down syndrome has lost a court challenge against the British government over a law allowing the abortion up until birth of a fetus with the condition (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

People with Down's syndrome are most at risk of death after having two Covid vaccines, study finds
UK researchers found that those with certain conditions are up to 12-times more likely to be hospitalised or die from Covid after being vaccinated, compared to healthy people. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

People with chronic conditions among most at risk from Covid even after jabs
Research finds those with Down ’s syndrome, Parkinson’s and other conditions may benefit from booster doseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople living with chronic conditions such as Down ’s syndrome and dementia remain among the most vulnerable to Covid-19 even after vaccination, research has found.The study, based on data from more than 6.9 million vaccinated adults, 5.2 million of whom had received both doses, found that being vaccinated offers powerful protection against hospitalisation for almost all groups. However, a risk calculator based on the data shows that some groups remain...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Tags: Coronavirus Science UK news Down's syndrome Vaccines and immunisation Health Parkinson's disease Dementia Source Type: news

Appeals court blocks Tennessee Down syndrome abortion ban
A panel of federal judges has reversed course and block a Tennessee restriction that outlaws abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or because of the race or gender of the fetus (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Walmart should be under tighter scrutiny because of wrongful firing of employee with Down syndrome, EEOC says
A jury found that the big-box retailer violated federal law when it fired a longtime employee with Down syndrome and refused to... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking. Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news