I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into ...

Nearly six miles. A city of strangers. A network of thousands online. And in the end, a collective answered prayer.

Ledger Aemmer, who has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, is getting stronger every day despite the odds stacked against him.

Within moments of his mother's touch, 11-month-old Gabriel Whittecar transitioned Friday morning from sitting upright on the ...

Researchers have dosed the first participant in a clinical trial of an investigational medicine designed to lower the amount ...

A baby girl has become the first in the UK to ... suffers from a rare condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome and was born without a functioning womb, the hospital said in ...

If this happens, the fetus is at risk of Down Syndrome, Patau syndrome ... So these results do not definitively determine whether the baby has other abnormalities or not. Before deciding whether you ...

Rebecca Fleishman (left) and the author at Becky’s bat mitzvah. I was early in my residency the first time I cared for a baby ...

“Wow! You were so kind to that little boy!” a pediatric resident told me with a saccharine and insincere tone. I was a third-year medical student, and she’d pulled me aside after she’d ...

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 ...

“We need to be inclusive; there is a lot we can do to help Down syndrome individuals reach their full potential.” These are the words of Gqeberha paediatrician Nomlindo Makubalo at a public ...