According to WHO, 6 per cent of babies are born with birth defects worldwide. Birth defects are structural or functional defects that occur when babies are developing in the mother's womb.

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 ...

They narrowed it down to more than 13,000 newborns—of whom 9,300 were exposed to NRT, 3,000 to varenicline, and 1,000 to bupropion—and compared their risk of birth defects to those born to ...

Theo Grataloup, 17, who was born with severe abnormalities of the oesophagus and larynx, said he represents all those with birth defects. Grataloup, who spoke to the AFP news agency Thursday ...

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