There could be as many as 400,000. People with down syndrome are here to stay. Now, many may have thought it was impossible, very difficult to reverse the ill effects. This often is not true. More than doubling of the Life Expectancy was due to interventions, getting people with down syndrome out of institutions and get them some standard medical care and surgery with those with a heart defect and those with hypothyroidism. Im sure people will live onger, better lives. Regardless, down Syndrome Research has been underfunded. And the condition that cannot fit under the scope of the institute but the bulk of the research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Care Health and development. To advance our understanding of alzheimers, cancer, leukemia, conditions and much more, i think the time is right to think of an initiative to investigate this condition both in many, many institutes at n. I. H. Now the concept of congress and n. I. H. Working together on an initiative to add
23rd on book tv on cspan2. Up next, the conversation from the Bipartisan Policy Center about Patient Centered research. How to provide the most effective medical treatment. Well hear from doctors of the Veterans Affairs department, John Hopkins University and heartfelt patient. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. It is great to see olivia here today. Im the chief medical advisor and i want to welcome all of you to todays event. For those of you who are new to bbc. We want to come by the best ideas from both political ideas to promote health and security for all. Todays event is being streamed live online and on cspan2. A recording will be available later this week. We invite you to interact with us on twitter about todays event using the bpc live. Well be taking questions after the panel discussion. If you are watching online and have a question for our panelist or opening speaker you can use bpc live and we will try to get to those during the q a. Over the next 90 minutes will be di
23rd on book tv on cspan2. Up next, the conversation from the Bipartisan Policy Center about Patient Centered research. How to provide the most effective medical treatment. Well hear from doctors of the Veterans Affairs department, John Hopkins University and heartfelt patient. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. It is great to see olivia here today. Im the chief medical advisor and i want to welcome all of you to todays event. For those of you who are new to bbc. We want to come by the best ideas from both political ideas to promote health and security for all. Todays event is being streamed live online and on cspan2. A recording will be available later this week. We invite you to interact with us on twitter about todays event using the bpc live. Well be taking questions after the panel discussion. If you are watching online and have a question for our panelist or opening speaker you can use bpc live and we will try to get to those during the q a. Over the next 90 minutes will be di
Now im pleased to introduce john and doctor pascual is the professor of neurology and associate dean for clinical and Translational Research at Harvard Medical School who served as the chief of the division of cognitive neurology and the Barrington Allen center for noninvasive brain stimulation act the medical center. John robison is a world recognized authority and the best times author of raising cubby. Hes from the college of william and mary. Ththe members of the number of e details his experience of the study led using the magnetic stimulation, the new experimental brain therapy. The hope of the doctors and scientists must understand and then address some of the issues at the heart. The Washington Post praises he takes readers for a ride through the science and leaves us wanting more. Hes explaining physical concepts and doesnt shy away from asking hard questions. This is a truly unusual memoir both poignant and scientifically important. Please join me in welcoming john robison an
After the show is over on her twitter page you can give your thoughts at cspan wj and our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Timepost informational the , things you probably want to keep track of. Especially if you keep track of politics. I invite you to go to those pages and make a thoughts known. Thats it for this program today, another one comes your way at 7 00 tomorrow. Coming up next to the Senate Education seend hearing on dyslexia on what can be done to raise awareness by those. That hearing is at the start shortly. 202 7488003 [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] the Senate Committee on health, education and labor pensions will come to order. Thank you for being here. Let me just remark, senator burial wasd and his this morning. So weve lost some of the folks here including senator hatch who asked that i would note tha