Intensified prenatal testing urgently needed to bring cases of Down syndrome to nil

American researchers identify "urgent global opportunities to prevent birth defects." Guess what is included in the list of birth defects to be prevented (and how)? Continue Reading

“These attributes do not define those we love.”

On the right side of the homepage, you'll see a scroll of my twitter feed. Unlike common uses of twitter, I do not update my followers where I'm eating dinner or what I think of the movie I'm watching. Instead, most all posts are links to news reports about Down syndrome. I invite you to follow the feed to see the news of the day. Some articles, however, are deserving of a larger exposition than the 140-character limit of Twitter. An article from last week is just so deserving. Dominic Continue Reading