Many people born with cleft lips suffer myriad problems including superstitions, traditional myths, stigma and scarcity of speech therapists especially in far-flung counties. The Kenya Progressive ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- A new study finds that contaminated corn may have caused an increase in babies born with rare birth defects in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.Scientists have been searching ...

Ten years ago, health-care workers in Brownsville discovered a disturbing trend: High rates of children born at the Community Health Clinic with a rare condition called anencephaly: a fatal birth ...

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 ...

HARLINGEN - Tortillas made with contaminated corn may have caused a rash of newborns with missing or rudimentary brains in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1990s, new data suggest. According to the ...

An analysis using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) among 5,374 women of reproductive age indicates that two thirds of women within this demographic have at least ...

Ann Arbor, August 26, 2025 - An analysis using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) among 5,374 women of reproductive age indicates that two thirds of women within ...

Anyone who looks at the creation of a human baby as it develops in the womb, is fascinated by the immensely complex process that is at play here. It is therefore not surprising that birth defects can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccination did not increase the risk for major structural birth defects. Neither brand of mRNA vaccine was ...

Every year on World Birth Defects Day (March 3), global health bodies like the World Health Organization promote awareness around congenital anomalies, a group of structural and functional disorders ...