Better ultrasound training from Tiny Hearts Project helps sonographers give families more time to prepare for babies' heart ...

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the many causes for this disorder is having only one functional copy of the ...

During pregnancy, fever is common, with roughly 1 out of 5 patients reporting the occurrence sometime during their gestational period.

Two-thirds of women in their child-bearing years have an increased risk for birth defects due to a lifestyle factor they can change, a new study says. These risk factors -- low levels of vitamin B9 ...

Since people will always have to eat, food remains a veritable tool for preventing diseases and reducing the need for treatment. Spina bifida is, therefore, a good case for using food to prevent the ...

Every year in Nigeria, nearly 11,000 babies are born with severe birth defects that experts say could largely be prevented. Millions more children suffer impaired brain development, while countless ...

One in 33 babies in the United States are born with birth defects. But a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising awareness of ways to lower that risk. Subscribe to ...

TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — A Tampa couple is grieving the loss of their daughter who was born with a rare but fatal birth defect. Catherine Mornhineway and Andrew Ford said they got the devastating ...

A Canadian same-sex couple is suing the woman who carried their now 2-year-old son because she refused their demand to abort ...

Two babies have been born in California with the severe birth defect microcephaly after their mothers contracted the Zika virus, authorities said Thursday, in a first for the state. The California ...

A baby born at Redcliffe Hospital could have lived longer than four hours if a congenital heart defect had been detected and ...