When Lisa Newtop got pregnant, some of her friends pulled away from her. Their parents thought that she might be a bad influence. She was 30 at the time, with a stable job and long-term boyfriend. But ...

"Mrs. Hudson, you're underfoot!" Sherlock Holmes's long-suffering landlady and housekeeper often saw, at close range, how impatient, insensitive, inconsiderate, and indifferent he could be with people ...

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The discovery may help shed light on how prehistoric societies treated children with rare conditions. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven ...

When Céline Dion started experiencing the debilitating symptoms of what doctors would later understand to be rare autoimmune and neurological disorder stiff-person syndrome, she had to find a way to ...

Savant syndrome is when someone with a developmental disorder displays above-average skill in a specific area. People often associate Savant syndrome with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Savant ...

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor ...