Len Leshin, MD

Adidas and FCB create performance shoe for runners with Down syndrome | Analysis | Campaign Asia Three years in the making: After rigorous testing and development, the product is set to launch in 2026.

Adidas and FCB create performance shoe for runners with Down syndrome

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As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

How to Protect Your Children During a Measles Outbreak The recent measles outbreaks have many parents concerned. Most of the people who have gotten sick were not vaccinated against measles. This is a stark reminder of the importance of making sure your ch...

How to protect your children during a measles outbreak:

I went through the measles epidemic in Corpus Christi in 1992. It was horrible.

“The risk associated with measles infection is much greater than the sum of its observable symptoms. Measles virus is especially dangerous because it has the ability to destroy what’s been earned: immune memory from previous infections”. asm.org/articles/201...

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

My son is 31 and has seizures since before his first birthday. Has been on almost every anticonvulsant, some of them twice. We’ve yet to find anything that works. But no two LGS cases are the same.

Many new people, I’ll reintroduce myself. I’m a pediatrician in Corpus Christi. I have an adult child with Down syndrome and epilepsy. I used to write at ds-health.com at the start of the internet.

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That’s about the time parents began taking babies with Down syndrome home instead of institutionalizing them.

First post. Migrating from the other app. Interested in pediatrics, Down syndrome, Lennox Gastaut syndrome.