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BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Scientists found patients with Down syndrome were six times more likely to have DNR status ordered at admission for COVID pneumonia compared to those without.
One in four children with cerebral palsy has moderate to severe pain that limits activities, according to a study published yesterday in ...
Yesterday Ben and Ken and I went shopping.We started off in the basement of Buffalo to get some sale shirts. There were a couple of overs...
Ben's favourite weather is rain. When he gets up in the morning he looks for clouds and dark sky out his window. He's been known to appea...
You're a newly qualified psychiatrist working on an AIDS unit in a hospital. You're HIV-positive, but you've kept your diagnosis a secret...
In Flippity flop I wrote about how people make split-second judgments about children who have facial features associated with genetic syndromes.
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