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

21-Year-Old Man with Down Syndrome Lands Job at UPS ... that was such a disappointment of the human race to me," Alfredo says. "I just thought to myself, people are seeing her as a labeled ...

Can Animals Have Mental Disabilities? Mental health issues aren’t exclusive to humans—animals can experience them too. From ...

from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Worthy was born with Down syndrome — a genetic disorder that causes intellectual disabilities and developmental delays.

Just two children with Down syndrome are born in Iceland each year ... It is precisely what a society must pay to remain fully human.” The title of the CBS piece asks, “What kind of society ...

The perception of Neanderthals was long shaped by stereotypes of them as primitive and solely focused on survival. However, ...

Bugonavic agrees but says a mild response was expected considering Down syndrome patients do not often die of the flu. Testing SARS-CoV-2, because of its higher mortality rate and worse health ...

For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—amyloid beta plaques and ...

A century after Down syndrome was first described ... Chromosome 21 is the smallest human chromosome, and procedures for examining human chromosomes were still being developed during the first ...

The Japan Down Syndrome Association was established in 2019 to address the problems faced by people with the disorder. The association compiled guidance on their health care, depending on their ...

The new study, "Evidence of blood–brain barrier dysfunction and CSF immunoglobulin synthesis in Down Syndrome Regression Disorder," was published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational ...

Self-defence lessons are essential, and Joyce Teoh Lay Bee, 55, is determined to equip her daughter, Sabrina Teoh Weber, 16, who has Down syndrome, with the skills to protect herself in any situation.