The Zika virus is putting a spotlight on a potentially devastating birth defect that until now has gotten little public attention. Regardless of whether the mosquito-borne virus really causes babies ...

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 fentanyl ...

(Eric Gay, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Birth defects affect millions of families worldwide each year, shaping lives long before a child ...

Data scientists have created an artificial intelligence model that may more accurately predict which existing medicines, not currently classified as harmful, may in fact lead to congenital ...

The World Health Organization sought to crush growing rumors that vaccines cause the birth defect linked to the Zika virus and a host of other rumors swirling around the growing outbreak. The Zika ...

A leading cause of birth defects is a virus that many expectant parents have never heard about. That may change soon thanks to the advocacy of parents whose children suffered birth defects due to the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it now considers Zika to be the definitive cause of the birth defects seen in Brazil and other countries affected by the ...

A recent study has uncovered new information about orofacial development in mice that researchers believe could one day help reduce the risk of certain birth defects in humans. Cleft lip and palate ...

Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year. Yet despite decades of research, it's still not known ...

After the troubling discovery earlier this year that Yakima County had logged an unexpectedly high number of fatal birth defects in 2012, the state Department of Health said Tuesday that its ...