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The first-ever Barbie doll with Down syndrome has been introduced by toy manufacturer Mattel, who made the announcement on Tuesday. The company had worked closely with the National Down Syndrome ...
The star of the Down Syndrome awareness ad says it’s fun ‘proving people wrong’ about the condition.
The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the neurodegenerative disorder in ...
To mark World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, Fox News contributor Tom Shillue headed to Times Square to speak with a father of a girl with Down syndrome about common misperceptions.
A donor heart saved Charlotte Woodward's life 13 years ago. Now Woodward, 35, is fighting for others with Down syndrome or other disabilities to have the same chance. Research has shown that ...
Mr. Rubert is a documentary filmmaker. When the filmmaker Jonatas Rubert was a child, his parents explained to him that his younger brother, Tiago, had Down syndrome. Rubert didn’t really know ...
A Texas special education teacher and two paraprofessionals were thrown behind bars for allegedly taping up the hands of a student with Down syndrome and forcing the ...
Approximately one in every 775 babies in the United States is born with Down syndrome, according to the National Down Syndrome Society. I learned this statistic firsthand when my daughter Molly ...
After three months apart, Jack was counting down the days until he finally got to see his brother again when he returned from college for the first time.
A new state law will reshape opportunities and health outcomes for people living with Down syndrome. How is this law different from others like it?
Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs Those with the syndrome have more of a protein implicated in dementia ...