We stood silently facing each other in the hospital corridor, until I heard the little boy’s Tonka truck clank to the floor.” ...

When pregnant television newsreader Fiona Wilson was told, following a routine scan, that she had more chance of winning the Lottery than having a baby with Down's syndrome, she felt reassured ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), about 1 in 700 babies in the U.S. is born with Down syndrome, which equates to about 5,100 births per year. While many cases are ...

An East Lothian man is set to run the London Marathon next month to raise awareness for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) after his son was diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Robbie Laidlaw from ...

The genetic cause for the most common type of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome has been identified in mice by researchers at UCL, the Francis Crick Institute and MRC Harwell Institute.

Charlotte Woodward was born with a congenital heart condition, and as a child, she underwent four open heart surgeries. “Everyone thought that my fourth one would be my last,” Woodward, 33, a ...

and Corey The mother of a boy with Down syndrome has told how he waited for more than three years for a scan to confirm he has arthritis. Lucy Meaney, from Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, said Joey (16 ...

Jake Burger's first reaction to finding out his baby girl would be born with Down syndrome: "OK, and?" The baby, Penelope, had open heart surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center last month ...