It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Rachel Handlin is an example of what’s possible when someone pursues their dreams. Handlin may be the first person on the ...

Last week, the BBC broadcast interviews with two couples who had agreed to abortions after a hospital told them it had ...

Using a surrogate has become increasingly popular in Hollywood - with Lily Collins the latest mother to use the process - but ...

The jury in the Florence Girard coroner's inquest has made 13 recommendations to prevent similar deaths of vulnerable ...

Astrid Dahl also says she was “in denial” when she noticed Girard’s rapid weight loss in the months leading up to the death of the woman with Down syndrome in 2018. Dahl says she first ...

The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people ...

Homicide detectives are appealing for fresh information as they investigate the death of a 56-year-old man with Down syndrome in North ... Shepherd confirmed the woman was a person of interest.

Two women had abortions after an NHS trust mistakenly told them their babies had serious conditions, the BBC has learned.

A woman from Torquay has praised her rehabilitation ... She lost all movement from the neck down due to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare condition that affects the nerves. The former cook said ...