Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles and drastically reduced the ...

Down syndrome, which causes a range of developmental differences and affects 1 in 700 newborns in the United States, is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. Mongkolchon ...

Little do most of us realise that our everyday habits such as constant slouching, skipping regular physical activity, and endless hours spent looking down at our phones or poorly positioned computer ...

Looking for Animals with Down Syndrome? Welcome to the Top 10 animals with down syndrome. While people are the main living animals who can foster down disorder, animals can foster fundamentally the ...

Craniosynostosis is a condition that causes one or more sutures to close too soon. If your baby has craniosynostosis, it may affect the shape of their skull, depending on how many sutures close ...

Diagnosing Down syndrome and counselling families remains a tiny part of my job. I’ve rolled stools beside new mothers during repeat C-sections to share what seemed possible.

Twenty years earlier, my grandmother Yetta reprimanded me and my cousin for tumbling headfirst down the half-flight of carpeted stairs in her split-level house, wearing the smocked Polly Flinders ...

Image: Patricia Macchiaverni, whose four-year-old daughter Lara has Down Syndrome, participated in the study. "Others included investigating acute care problems such as sepsis infections in children ...

World Down Syndrome Day is observed as an effort to bring attention to Down Syndrome. The theme this year is ‘all about support’. Between March 20 and 22, there will be a number of events at ...

My son was born on a cold January night in 2007 and diagnosed with Down syndrome about five minutes later. When I look back at the hours and days that immediately followed, I’m mostly struck by ...