Three-month-old Ruslan suffers from CHD. He has already had open-heart surgery to correct his birth defects. Two-year-old Nadya has been diagnosed with hydrocephaly, a disorder characterized by a ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

Their time in country overlapped with Nestor’s birth on November 26 ... Many children born with congenital heart defects, such as the fatal Chernobyl Heart, have been unable to receive necessary ...

The scientific debate is ongoing over whether congenital birth defects can be linked to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened 30 years ago this month. Physicians in the ...