I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the ...

Francis, who died this morning, transformed far more than the priorities of the Catholic Church.

NEW YORK — A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to ... also will likely absorb what ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making good on his promise to lay off thousands of employees across the government’s health care agencies.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... like reading books, talking on ...

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... like reading books, talking on ...

This small branch played a big role in advancing evidence-based genetic testing, and its loss diminishes US leadership in ...

Take Prenatal Vitamins and Folic Acid One of the most important things a pregnant woman can do is to take folic acid – a B vitamin that can prevent certain birth defects of the brain and spinal cord.

The effects and symptoms of the hereditary type begin at birth or during early childhood ... This is a recessive gene defect, which means that a person must have no properly working copies of the gene ...

Domestic researchers in a world first have identified the causes of congenital spina bifida, a birth defect that ... to the development of prevention measures and predictable models for disease. Spina ...

"She has been assessed by wildlife veterinarians in the past, and her condition is most likely a birth defect, and no medical intervention is necessary," the official told AFP over email on April 11.

Foetal abnormalities, also known as congenital disorders, congenital anomalies, or birth ... neural tube defects. Vaccination against infections like rubella is also essential to prevent certain ...