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A new medical illness is being recognized by the American Heart Association as a result of the close connections between obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and renal disease.

When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor lived for a time in Santo Amaro de Oeiras, Portugal, near her aunt Teresa who had Down syndrome, which causes intellectual disability. Had Lianor, who is 47, stayed in Portugal, she would have witnessed her aunt decline and then die at age 60 of Alzheimer's - the most common cause of death for people with Down syndrome...

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Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally

Experts debunk the common misconceptions about meditation that we tell ourselves and suggest how you can get past them.

A new medical illness is being recognized by the American Heart Association as a result of the close connections between obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and renal disease.

Working with climate pediatrician groups, Nguyen noticed San Diego lacked a heat officer, an official responsible for protecting citizens from extreme heat.

Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created an atlas of the amygdala, it was announced Thursday.

UC San Diego School of Medicine and Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers have created an atlas of the amygdala, a structure within the brain that...

The board voted to formally ditch plans for a regional road user change, sometimes referred to as a “mileage tax.