National Down Syndrome Society NDSS Regal Cinema PSA. Courtesy of National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS). Down syndrome occurs when an individual has three, rather than two, copies of the 21st chromosome. This additional genetic material alters the course of development and causes the characteristics associated with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is the most commonly occurring chromosomal condition. One in every 733 babies is born with Down syndrome. There are more than 400000 people living with Down syndrome in the United States. Down syndrome occurs in people of all races and economic levels. The incidence of births of children with Down syndrome increases with the age of the mother. But due to higher fertility rates in younger women, 80 percent of children with Down syndrome are born to women under 35 years of age. People with Down syndrome have an increased risk for certain medical conditions such as congenital heart defects, respiratory and hearing problems, Alzheimer’s disease, childhood leukemia, and thyroid conditions. Many of these conditions are now treatable, so most people with Down syndrome lead healthy lives. A few of the common physical traits of Down syndrome are low muscle tone, small stature, an upward slant to the eyes, and a single deep crease across the center of the palm. Every person with Down syndrome is a unique individual and may possess these characteristics to different degrees or not at all. Life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has …

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Human genes are normally organized along forty-six chromosomes in our cells, twenty-three from each parent. But some people are born with an extra copy of the twenty-first chromosome. This third copy is a result of a mistake in cell division. The name for this condition is Down syndrome. A British doctor named John Langdon Down first described it in the eighteen sixties. An estimated three hundred fifty thousand people in the United States have Down syndrome. Many babies with Down syndrome have low muscle tone, so they need extra support when they are held. Their heads are smaller than average and they may have unusually shaped ears. Also, their eyes often angle upward. People with Down syndrome often have other conditions. These include problems with their heart and with their breathing and hearing. A lot of these conditions, though, are treatable. About one in every one hundred people with Down syndrome will develop leukemia, a cancer of the blood. But the National Down Syndrome Society says many of these cases are curable as well. As a result, people with Down syndrome are living longer. In the early nineteen eighties they lived an average of just twenty-five years. Today the life expectancy for someone with Down syndrome is sixty years. But with that longer life, people with Down syndrome may have an increased risk for Alzheimers disease at an early age. An estimated twenty-five percent of those …

Question by Neal V: Did you see the “cop dumps man outta wheelchair” video?
What would you do? What should be done? What can be done to prevent things like this from happening? …and finally, why do you think the cop did it??

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/12/deeson.fl.disabled.man.dumped.wtsp

Best answer:

Answer by Chris
No I didnt see the “cop” dump the man out of the wheel chair…

I saw a Correctional Officer Dump the man out of the wheelchair…

There is kind of a difference… if ya didnt notice..

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A country in great pain is how one could describe Rwanda. No where is that hard reality clearer than in Kibeho, a small hill where upon the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl named Natalie. Since the first apparition in 1981, Kibeho has become a pilgrimage for thousands. A place of suffering and a place of prayer one might say because on this one hill alone 25000 people were killed during the 1994 genocide. Purples spots denote holes in the wall where belligerents through in grenades and gasoline. The killings continued for several more years. No place in Rwanda does the spiritual struggle meet so intently as in Kibeho, a place with no water and electricity, full of the old & demoralized, though it fills regularly with thousands of faithful who walk a hundred miles to get there. The light on that hill has not been diminished, thanks to the tireless work of one woman. Sister Rafaela Nalecz came to Kibeho to start a school for the blind and she won’t leave until she replicates what she’s already done in India where hundreds of blind children are being educated in a school she started on her own. “When the Virgin Mary appeared she insisted upon the way of the cross. You must suffer in order to achieve something,” says Pallotine Father Antoine Baligora who like Sister Nalecz is there because he has great compassion for the suffering. To honor these tireless servants, who exhibit great fortitude and strength in their work at Kibeho, this video has featured the Caring Habit …

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