Three copies of chromosome 21 cause Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with DS—approximately 2,600—also have congenital heart defects (CHDs). What is ...
Down syndrome affects around one in 640 children born in the US every year, and is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. About 15% of Downs cases are due to the presence of an ...
SAN ANTONIO – The Children’s Heart Foundation is leading a nationwide initiative to combat congenital heart defects through a series of research walks. The San Antonio Congenital Heart Walk, presented ...
Purpose: Patients with cardiovascular malformations (CVMs) and deletion 22q11 from our series were studied in order to (1) analyze the association with dysmorphic features and noncardiac anomalies, (2 ...
Like a live canine, Yubie, UB’s robot dog, is adept at exploring and doesn’t shy away from small spaces that can be dark, dirty and full of cobwebs. This is good news for engineers responsible for ...
Three Green councillors in Glasgow and one of the party’s top candidates in the city have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party. Ellie Gomersall was second on the party’s regional ...
When my alarm sounds at 6:30, I roll my 32-week pregnant body onto its side and use my arms to push myself up to a sitting position, as the experts recommend, so that I don’t overly strain my core ...
To appreciate the pace of progress in the quality of life of individuals with Down syndrome, we simply need to consider that a little over 30 years ago the median age of death of a person born with ...