But the most common age of death for people without a learning disability is about 87 years old. This is 20 years longer.

Assisted Dying and people with learning disabilities. Professor Irene Tuffrey Wijne, a specialist on palliative care for those with learning disabilities who has studied how the Euthanasia legislation ...

GPs were today urged to widen testing for an incurable genetic condition, often mistaken for autism, that can cause learning disabilities. Fragile X syndrome, so rare it affects around one in 4,000 ...

I’ve lived with the challenges faced by those with severe learning disabilities within my own family. This isn’t a business for me. It’s a passion spanning decades of searching for a better answer for ...

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) account for more than one in five patients who have been in Ontario's mental health beds for over a year, according to a new study ...

Patients with learning disabilities are likely to progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are also at greater risk of dying from it than other parts of the population, warn the authors of a UK ...

Senator Wyden introduces the Protecting Students with Disabilities Act to ensure services for disabled students.

Adults with learning disabilities and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) have better short-term glycemic control.

Generally, people with learning disabilities die 20 years younger than those without learning disabilities and about 39% of ...