Just 30 years ago infants born with Down's syndrome (DS) were routinely denied lifesaving
surgery. Physicians often advised parents to leave Down's babies in the hospital, where they …

Counseling parents of infants with down's syndrome Page 1 counseling parents of infants
with down's syndrome Siegfried Pueschel, MD, MPH Ann Murphy, MSW Children's Hospital …

THERE are infants—some with Down's syndrome—who are born dying, in the sense that
they are afflicted with an illness for which there is no definitive life-saving treatment, and they …

D own syndrome is perhaps the most recognizable and well-described genetic syndrome
encountered in pediatrics. Undoubtedly seen in ages past, John Langdon Down was the first …

Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality, occurring once in
approximately every 800 to 1000 live births. A close association between advanced …

A survey of attitudes of pediatricians, child neurologists, and pediatric surgeons toward
Down syndrome is compared with a similar study reported in 1975. A contemporary …

Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is the commonest autosomal trisomy, and the commonest
identifiable cause of learning disability. The natural prevalence is around 1/600 live births …

Findings of four recent survey studies of physicians' attitudes toward discretionary medical
treatment of infants with Down's Syndrome are evaluated in terms of three major thenes. It is …

Abstract Paediatricians throughout Australia and New Zealand completed a questionnaire in
which they indicated the type of advice the normally give to parents of children with Down's …

In the opening chapter of their scholarly edition on Down's syndrome, Rynders and
Pueschel indicated that the present precetion of the condition is still sometimes medieval. 1 …