Trisomy 18 is a fatal chromosomal condition that can be detected during pregnancy. It's also at the center of a new legal case in Texas, where a mom of two, Kate Cox, is seeking an abortion after ...

(CBS) Bella Santorum, the 3-year-old daughter of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, was hospitalized over the weekend with pneumonia and complications from the genetic disorder, Trisomy ...

“Is she in pain?” I asked quietly as the pearlescent baby-shaped image on the screen folded its legs and then extended them. Something was very wrong with our baby. A few hours later, I lay on a ...

When Beverly Jacobson first learned that her unborn daughter Verity would be born with the rare genetic condition trisomy 18, she “was filled with fear and anxiety” — but just three weeks ago the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 20 weeks pregnant, Kate Cox sued the state of Texas seeking an exemption to its abortion ban, which denies the procedure to ...

Children with trisomy 13 or 18, who are for the most part severely disabled and have a very short life expectancy, and their families lead a life that is happy and rewarding overall, contrary to the ...

This is, first and foremost, a love story ... about a mother and her unbreakable bond with her daughter, who is just like any other 6-year-old girl. You can see the love in the way Kimberly Minor ...

A new prospective study provides further evaluation of the potential use of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening for trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) as a primary screening method among unselected pregnancies in ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — March is National Trisomy Awareness Month, and one Arkansas girl's diagnosis of the condition isn't stopping her from shining bright. Trisomy X syndrome, or Triple X, is a medical ...

At age 3, Rick Santorum’s daughter Bella, who has been hospitalized for the second time during his presidential campaign, has outlived the majority of children born with Trisomy 18, a relatively ...

Prenatal trisomy 7 is usually a cell culture artifact in amniocytes with normal diploid karyotype at birth and normal fetal outcome. In the same way, true prenatal trisomy 7 mosaicism usually results ...