"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 — ...

When Maria Curtis was born with Down syndrome in 1963, her Naperville family refused to institutionlize her and she would ...

“Wow! You were so kind to that little boy!” a pediatric resident told me with a saccharine and insincere tone. I was a third-year medical student, and she’d pulled me aside after she’d witnessed me ...

Emma McLean is a 6-year-old girl who loves Taylor Swift, reading books, playing the drums and hanging with her little sister. While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down ...

ROCKAWAY, N.J. — World Down Syndrome Awareness Day has a new hero, his name is Super J and his power is love. A new mascot of World Down Syndrome Awareness Day is flying into the hearts of readers ...

Charlotte Woodward was born with a congenital heart condition, and as a child, she underwent four open heart surgeries. “Everyone thought that my fourth one would be my last,” Woodward, 33, a programs ...

Nearly 11 years ago, Carissa Carroll gave birth to Jack, her middle child, via emergency cesarean section. While attitudes and outlook have changed, it wasn’t so long ago that a diagnosis of Down ...

Services will include physical therapy, occupational therapy, audiology, speech therapy, nutrition, family medicine and more. Staff tell WRAL News that additional services will also launch soon for ...

"Mostly I'm sad you’ll never have the privilege of knowing my daughter." — -- Courtney Baker took more than a year to write and mail a letter she had been thinking about since she was pregnant ...

Adults with both Down syndrome and congenital heart defects, also known as congenital heart disease (CHD), are showing remarkable resilience despite facing significant medical challenges, according to ...