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Pediatrician Kate Westmoreland cuts a ribbon during a ceremony Monday, March 17, 2025, for the opening of UNC Health’s new Down Syndrome Clinic in Chapel Hill as her daughter, Izabel, 2, who has ...
Her pediatrician first noticed something was off when Jurnee Locklear came in for a checkup at 3 months old, her mother said. Jurnee, now 3, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, a genetic condition ...
Pediatrician Kate Westmoreland cuts a ribbon during a ceremony Monday, March 17, 2025, for the opening of UNC Health’s new Down Syndrome Clinic in Chapel Hill as her daughter, Izabel, 2, who has ...
The Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society hosting its 16th annual Camp Buddy in Effingham County this week. The summer camp is specifically for children with Down syndrome and helps participants ...
The proposed GOP budget cuts would devastate the Medicaid system, reducing funding for services that support disabled ...
As CEO of New Concepts for Living, or NCFL, a not-for-profit provider of community residences, day programs and therapeutic services for adults living with I/DD, I understand all too well the pain ...
Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living ...
Steve Branch said Wesley, who has special needs, is living in an apartment known as “Friendship House 1.5” at the original location, which consists of four friends living on the first floor.
Westmoreland, the founder and medical director of the new Down syndrome clinic, has a 2-year-old daughter, Isabel, with Down ...