A couple beat incredible odds when they welcomed identical twins—an already rare occurrence—but what made their story truly one in a million was that both babies were born with Down syndrome. Their ...

When Melissa Hart’s brother was born in 1975, doctors told her parents, “Oh, he’s never going to amount to anything. You need to put him in an institution.” Hart’s brother had Down syndrome, which ...

One Monday morning, Ms Krist Ng received a call from the hospital and the nurse on the line said her baby had a 50 per cent chance of having Down syndrome. Stunned, the volunteer manager at a ...

Her lab has begun a small study with human volunteers at MIT. “While this work, for the first time, shows beneficial effects of GENUS on Down syndrome using an imperfect mouse model, we need to ...

In the latest such research at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Alana Down Syndrome Center at MIT, scientists found that 40Hz sensory stimulation improved cognition and circuit ...

Daniella Gray is a Newsweek Family & Parenting Reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on family dynamics, childhood development, parenting styles, U.S. education and current trends in family ...

A loving and doting Territory mother was unable to be by her baby boy’s side in his dying days due to ‘fanciful’ and unfair reports by a bureaucratic government agency. In December ...

"I literally felt like I'd lost the air in my chest. I couldn't speak." That was the immediate reaction of a Florida dad and entrepreneur when he learned during an urgent phone call from his wife ...

Down syndrome or Down's syndrome ... A decade after scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT first began testing whether sensory stimulation of the brain's 40Hz "gamma ...

They were welcomed into the DSACO family with a gift for their new baby boy. They received encouragement, resources, information on programs that were offered and Down syndrome community events.

The horrible crime took place in the city of Bab Ezzouar in the eastern suburbs of the capital Algiers, when parents in their 30s tortured their Down Syndrome baby to death. The couple were ...

That pregnancy took a dramatic turn, however, when the couple was told that their baby had a 100 percent chance of being born with Down syndrome. "I found out about her Down syndrome diagnosis ...