Niyati Kantaliya, a one-year-old, recently received a bionic ear at KEM Hospital, mirroring her elder sister's surgery a decade prior. Both sisters share congenital deafness and blue eyes, indicative ...

By Dr Lynda Nazareth Down’s syndrome is one of the most common chromosomal abnormalities that affects approximately 1 in ...

Sanfilippo syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that has been dubbed 'childhood Alzheimer's' because it causes children to ...

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the ...

Professor Josep Egozcue, who carried out the research at Barcelona University, said last night: 'For the first time we can say that older fathers are producing Down's syndrome babies. 'The ...

Researchers have made significant strides in the fight against Alzheimer's disease by enrolling the first individual with Down syndrome in a clinical trial aimed at preventing the onset of this ...

Down syndrome, the most frequent birth defect (around 1/700 births), results in most cases from the presence in all cells of an extra copy of chromosome 21. It is characterized by a complex and ...

Joana Tsinonis didn’t know what to expect when she learned her son had down syndrome. It ended up being one of the greatest gifts of her life. “I thought my world would be very different in a ...

Saved by gravity, I pivoted back into his room to pick it up with echoes of my grandmother’s yelling buzzing in my ears. Twenty years earlier ... residency the first time I cared for a baby diagnosed ...

The 6-year-old child of a South African couple living in Waikato is being threatened with deportation because he has Down syndrome – a move his parents say is “heartbreaking” and ...

However, until know little has been known about whether and how babies can perceive their own body signals. A recent study demonstrates for the first time that babies as young as 3 months can ...