Practitioners who treat mothers and babies before and after birth are uniting to spread the word about birth defects. The Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network held a news conference with ...

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

Parenting a kid with birth defects is not only emotionally draining but also poses unique challenges that you probably didn’t prepare for when you were trying for pregnancy. Of course, you love your ...

MotherToBaby, a service of the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), today announced the launch of two brand new resource hubs—a dedicated webinar repository and a collection of ...

THAT’S GOOD NEWS. BUT AGAIN JUST BE CAREFUL ON SOME OF THOSE DAMP ROADS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WELL, THIS MONTH MARKS BIRTH DEFECTS AWARENESS MONTH WITH 1 IN 33 BABIES AFFECTED BY BIRTH DEFECTS IN THE ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As January comes to a close, doctors say it's important to recognize National Birth Defects Awareness Month. The March of Dimes says birth defects are the leading cause of infant ...

Mom-and-pop shops will be exempt from this change, but big manufacturers in California will need to start adding folic acid ...

A UK mother with a 1-year-old has revealed that her son’s life feels like a powder keg due to his medical condition. Nine months after he was born, Emma Brazier’s son Lucas was diagnosed with ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the ...

Metformin use by men in the three-month period before they conceived a child was linked to a 40% higher risk of birth defects in the offspring, according to a study published Monday in the journal ...

Each year, 41,000 babies in Vietnam are born with defects. IVF and gene screening are offering families hope for healthy ...