In a remarkable case of cross-border medical collaboration, an Abu Dhabi-based doctor has successfully led a series of ...

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 ...

Vaccination did not increase the risk for major structural birth defects. Neither brand of mRNA vaccine was associated with birth defects. COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was not associated ...

For several months in April and November 2004, U.S. troops were engaged in some of the heaviest fighting they had seen since the Vietnam War, dropping more than 300 bombs, 391 rockets and roughly ...

For many, the trauma of Fallujah hadn’t gone away ... including enormous increases in cancer, birth defects, leukemia, still ...

Could science help prevent birth defects? This National Birth Defects Awareness Month, here's the breakthrough every couple needs to know! Every January, National Birth Defects Awareness Month ...

The birth defects were more likely, but still very uncommon, in infants conceived through certain fertility treatments, a large study found. By Teddy Rosenbluth Major heart defects are more common ...

Severe birth defects have become increasingly common as new research points to fentanyl misuse as a new possible cause. Recently, at least 30 infants across the US have been born with “fetal ...

"What happened in Fallujah was extremely brutal. The Americans used banned weapons, which led to a rise in cases of infertility in women, birth defects, and cancer cases," said Saadi al-Dhehaybah ...

The WHO regional director said while genetics plays a major role in their aetiology (study of the causes of a disease), many birth defects are preventable through addressing environmental factors.

Two years after the US operation in Fallujah, a doctor named Samira Alani began logging birth defect numbers in newborns, after she detected a surge in cases. She spent the following years doing ...

Birth defects affect 3% of pregnancies in the United States. Screening and diagnostic tests during pregnancy can identify many birth defects. Parents can take critical steps to help prevent ...