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Down Syndrome Awareness Day and Neshikha

My presumptive life trajectory sharply changed three decades ago when I had my fifth child. I was in my early thirties, and, on paper, at least, my pregnancy was presumably normal: Normal hematocrit (blood...

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A Beautiful Blond: Down Syndrome and Victoria’s Secret

A Beautiful Blond: Downs and Victoria's Secret By Chaya Ben-Baruch I am used to seeing beautiful models, they come in an assortment of eyes shapes, hair color, and skin tones. Korean actress Jung Ho-Yeon in the...

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Altruistic Kidney Donation

There are a few things in life I always intuitively knew I was meant to do: 1) At age 18 I traveled from New York to Alaska to study maternal behavior in sea otters. However,...

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