At ten months old, Eloise “Lou” Beckman keeps her parents smiling. “She is a giggler. She is joyous,” said Ciera Beckman, Lou ...

Three years ago, Adidas and FCB introduced Runner 321, a campaign that encouraged top marathons to reserve bib number 321 for ...

Down’s syndrome is one of the most common chromosomal abnormalities, that presents a spectrum of physical, developmental, ...

The parents of a seven-year-old boy who has Down's syndrome say his modelling success shows how children with the condition ...

Until more data are available about the frequency of this defect and its association with Down syndrome, a left ventricular echogenic focus should be regarded as a normal variant. An ultrasound at ...

Mothers-to-be are being offered a 'one- stop' testing service on the NHS that will identify whether they are at high risk of having a Down's syndrome baby. It can check women at around 11 weeks of ...

scan can look for the brain abnormalities that are present in Joubert syndrome and confirm the diagnosis. Other tests can include: Thorough neurological and developmental evaluation Assessment for eye ...

An ultrasound may be used to confirm a miscarriage. It also may identify an emerging condition that can present a later miscarriage risk, such as a placental problem. The screening test for Down ...

The genetic cause for the most common type of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome has been identified in mice by researchers at UCL, the Francis Crick Institute and MRC Harwell Institute.

Down syndrome, the most frequent birth defect (around 1/700 births), results in most cases from the presence in all cells of an extra copy of chromosome 21. It is characterized by a complex and ...

Joana Tsinonis didn’t know what to expect when she learned her son had down syndrome. It ended up being one of the greatest gifts of her life. “I thought my world would be very different in a ...

I blurted out. My voice mirrored my grandmother’s. I don’t remember if the child was experiencing a specific ailment commonly coupled with his Down syndrome, such as leukemia or a structural heart or ...