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 ...

Two third of American women under 50 have at least one of five modifiable risk factors that can lead to birth defects. Here's ...

Bill Sullivan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Imagine the shock of your baby being born with a swollen brain, blindness and debilitating seizures. Now imagine learning that ...

An expansive study of more than half a million infants found that the COVID-19 vaccine, when administered during the first trimester of pregnancy, didn’t increase the risk of birth defects.

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 ...

At least 10 babies — possibly more than 12 — have been identified with what doctors believe to be a new syndrome related to exposure to fentanyl in the womb. All of the infants have distinctive ...