January is National Birth Defects Awareness Month. Greater awareness can help improve the lives of those living with these ...

The move, which addresses a long-standing gap in food regulation without altering how tortillas look or taste, took effect on ...

January marks National Birth Defects Prevention Month, and local organizations are working together to raise awareness about ...

A new bill up for debate could help reduce the risk of birth defects. The bill looks to fortify enriched grain products with ...

NHS guidance that marrying your first cousin could have “benefits” despite a greater risk of birth defects has caused outrage ...

According to the CDC, a baby is born with a major birth defect every 4.5 minutes in the U.S. North Dakota Health and Human ...

Practitioners who treat mothers and babies before and after birth are uniting to spread the word about birth defects. The ...

August 24, 2010 — Exposure to acyclovir or valacyclovir in the first trimester of pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk for major birth defects, according to the results of a large, ...

The rare birth defect is associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. — -- At the center of the Zika virus crisis is the rise of a dangerous condition called microcephaly. The rare birth defect ...

A Tampa couple is grieving the loss of their daughter who was born with a rare but fatal birth defect.Catherine Mornhineway<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Maternal exposure to sulfur dioxide during the first trimester was associated with higher odds of congenital limb defects in ...

As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), we have spent our careers protecting ...