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Alzheimer's: predicting the onset of disease to improve treatment

Predicting the onset of Alzheimer's disease in people with a hereditary form could become possible thanks to a genetic model developed by a team of Belgian researchers at the Brain Research Centre of the Flemish...
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“To be or not to be”: actors with Down's Syndrome give a performance of Hamlet that challenges prejudices

“A luminous show that goes beyond the turmoil of Hamlet to bring to the stage an irrepressible thirst for life”. This is how the commentators on Musiq3 (RTBF) describe a play that made a stopover in Belgium at the...
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UN criticises Belgium for ‘high rate’ of abortions linked to prenatal Down’s Syndrome tests

In its latest report, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities notes with ‘concern’ that the ‘negative perception of persons with disabilities’ in Belgian society contributes to the ‘high level of...
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Guy Dembour, a life devoted to revolutionizing the approach to disability

Dr Guy Dembour's mission is to highlight the special abilities of children with Down's Syndrome, focusing on their potential rather than their deficiency. A cardiopediatrician and founder in 2001 of Constridel, a...
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Are people in a persistent vegetative state "Vegetables"?

Playing tennis in your headThe case which has clearly contributed the most to broadcasting the issue of people in a persistent vegetative state is the one of Terri Schiavo.  In medical history, persistent vegetative...