It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

In the must-see video above, a Texas patient with down syndrome was blown away when two of her favorite Disney princesses came to visit her in hospital last December, thanks to the kindness of an ICU ...

How do you treat a childhood condition when the patient is no longer a child? For people with Down syndrome, medical advances have brought significant increases in life expectancy. But those advances ...

Thirty-five-year-old Ingrid Kidd was delighted to find that she was the 100th patient to be enrolled at the Adult Down Syndrome Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). BIRMINGHAM, Ala ...

Robertsonian translocation, for example, is one of many different types of translocation that cytogeneticists have identified in DS patients over the years. In these cases, Down syndrome is caused ...

A Texas patient with down syndrome was blown away when two of her favourite Disney princesses came to visit her in hospital last December, thanks to the kindness of an ICU nurse. When ICU nurse ...

The clinical name for Down syndrome is trisomy 21, a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, causing mild to moderate cognitive disability, developmental delays and physical ...

Co-founder Gina Marie took over as executive director of Friends of Down Syndrome early this year after creating the ...

“Jake, our little girl is going to have Down syndrome,” Ashlyn told him over the phone. “OK, and?” Jake replied nonchalantly.