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 ...

They don’t cry or keep you up at night, and can soothe anxiety or help with loss, but they are an expensive – and eerie – trend ...

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 ...

Baby Aaron Holloway was born with misshapen ears, with part of one turned inside out. But thanks to a mould costing just £30, his ears are growing into the right shape - without any discomfort or ...