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.

The deadly condition is one of the most common types of birth defect – 13 babies are diagnosed with the chronic ailment every day in the UK. Associate professor Duncan Sparrow, who led the ...

Treating anemia during pregnancy might lower the risk of heart defects in newborns, a new study says. Women with anemia in early pregnancy have a 47% increased risk of giving birth to a child with ...

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 ...

A surge of infections from a tropical virus is raising alarm among public health officials because it appears to be causing birth defects similar to those associated with Zika virus. Known as ...