Rebecca and Luke Chambers keep an eye on Cal Chambers as he climbs a ladder at one of his favorite places, the playground at John Venezia Community Park on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (The Gazette, ...

Children with Down syndrome have a significantly increased risk of leukemia, while adults have a lower risk of several common ...

WASHINGTON—Iceland must be pleased that it is close to success in its program of genocide, but before congratulating that nation on its final solution to the Down syndrome problem, perhaps it might ...

Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations that require surgery in the first months of life. For decades, scientists have ...

Studies reveal that people with Down syndrome (DS) have over a 90% lifetime risk of developing dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD) as they age. Research from the University of Pittsburgh's ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least in lab-grown human cells. The project, led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume of Mie ...

Down syndrome affects around one in 640 children born in the US every year, and is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. About 15% of Downs cases are due to the presence of an ...

Decades ago, researchers showed that Down syndrome (also known as trisomy 21), was caused when individuals carried an extra copy of chromosome 21. Down syndrome is also the most common genetic cause ...

Researchers conducted a nationwide registry-based cohort study to compare the cumulative incidence of AKI and CKD across the lifespan in 2815 patients with Down syndrome with that in 28,150 age- and ...

It used to be that adults with Down syndrome werent really given a chance. Before the 1980s, an overwhelming majority of people with Down syndrome were institutionalized in the United States simply ...