When Jacobson was still pregnant with Verity, a common phrase she heard from doctors was that trisomy 18 was “incompatible ...

In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the ...

I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl with almond shaped eyes,” a woman named Sarah wrote on Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s website. “The doctors and nurses didn’t notice, but I did. After days of ...

Also known as Trisomy 18, Edwards' syndrome is a disorder in which babies have an an extra copy of a chromosome in every cell of their body. The symptoms, and how seriously a baby is affected ...

Definitive diagnosis of Edwards syndrome is by detection of a complete ... best interest is probably the most important. Only 10% of children survive beyond 1 year of life, and they are all ...

A baby boy was born with his right ear on his cheek as a result of a rare syndrome that only affects one in 25,000 people. Vinnie James, now four-months-old, has been diagnosed with Goldenhar ...

Also known as Trisomy 18, Edwards' syndrome is a disorder in which babies have an an extra copy of a chromosome in every cell of their body. The symptoms, and how seriously a baby is affected, depends ...