The New Year is a time to evaluate and to take steps to improve our lives. Obviously, birth is the ultimate new beginning, and it is appropriate that this month is National Birth Defects Awareness ...

Researchers at Gladstone Institutes have identified genetic mechanisms involved in heart defects that develop in some fetuses born to diabetic women. They discovered these mechanisms at work in a ...

Thanks to advances in imaging and diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many genetic disorders in the womb, ...

Researchers have identified several genetic variants associated with increased risk of cancer in children with non-chromosomal birth defects, such as congenital heart disease and defects of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY – A multistate study led by researchers at the University of Utah has revealed that the risk for childhood cancer is moderately increased among children and young adolescents with ...

DANVILLE, Pa. — Finding out you are pregnant can be one of the most wonderful times in a woman's life. But learning your baby has a birth defect can be one of the scariest. January is Birth Defect ...

Scientists are moving toward a genetic test that could help thousands of mothers with epilepsy safely take life-saving medication without fear of it causing birth defects in their children. Subscribe ...

On World Birth Defects Day, India's congenital anomalies burden is spotlighted with roughly 472,000 affected births annually, ...

Fentanyl has unfortunately found its next victims — newborn babies, according to a study. At least 10 babies, and perhaps more than 12, are thought to be suffering from birth defects related to ...

Philadelphia, November 30, 2022 – Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified several genetic variants associated with increased risk of cancer in children with ...