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 ...

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 ...

Cary Chiu was the last person to testify in the coroner's inquest into the death of Florence Girard, a 54-year-old woman with Down syndrome who starved to death while living in her caretaker's home in ...

An inquest into the death of a woman with Down syndrome who died in a caretaker's home has concluded her death was a homicide, and that she died of starvation and malnutrition.

Cushing syndrome, which is also called Cushing’s syndrome, is a disorder that happens when your body makes too much of the ...

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 ...