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In an attempt to address the physician shortage and reach patients without access to primary care physicians, Massachusetts General Hospital is developing a portal for patients with Down syndrome to ...

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Down syndrome, the most common chromosomal disorder in America, can be complicated by significant deterioration in movement, speech and functioning in some adolescents and young adults. Physicians ...

The NIH has launched a new web tool to provide medical professionals and researchers with de-identified information from its Down syndrome registry. DS-Connect, the NIH’s Down Syndrome registry, was ...

Aelis Farma announced positive results from Phase 1/2 trial of its drug candidate AEF0217 in young adults with Down syndrome. The study assessed the safety and efficacy of AEF0217, a selective CB1 ...

Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which toxic amyloid plaques build up in the brain. The condition is strikingly ...

Patients with Down syndrome have an increased risk of developing early onset Alzheimer disease compared to the general population. Among the 6.5 million older patients with intellectual disabilities ...

There is a common misconception that people with Down syndrome, also called Down's syndrome, are always happy and they lack full range of emotions. Research and personal experience contradict this ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a new lead on Alzheimer's research, Johnson & Johnson is bankrolling a three-year pilot study of people with Down syndrome to identify the early changes that herald dementia, ...

In the must-see video above, a Texas patient with down syndrome was blown away when two of her favorite Disney princesses came to visit her in hospital last December, thanks to the kindness of an ICU ...

“Wow! You were so kind to that little boy!” a pediatric resident told me with a saccharine and insincere tone. I was a third-year medical student, and she’d pulled me aside after she’d witnessed me ...