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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Kate McLeod was 34 weeks pregnant, she and her husband received a ...

Growing up in Tiffanie DiDonato’s house, 'can’t' was considered a four-letter word that was not allowed in her vocabulary. “You could use any other word, (but) I wasn’t allowed to think I was ...

A Stone Age person buried 12,000 years ago in a cave in Italy had a rare genetic disorder that shortened her arms and legs, a new study finds. A DNA analysis of her skeleton revealed that she was a ...

Dwarfism refers to medical or genetic conditions that result in an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches or shorter. Most cases result from genetic disorders, particularly achondroplasia, which accounts ...

A woman who refuses to be defined by her dwarfism has opened up about the realities of living with the condition, especially when it comes to dating—from the good, the bad to the downright creepy.