... X-ray computed tomography (microCT) is affording scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health regulators reiterated their warning Friday that organ transplant drugs from Roche and Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women....
... Child Health Journal. Preterm birth (live birth before 37 completed weeks ... eight percent of babies born preterm had a birth defect, according to the research by a team of investigators from the March ...
... . Also included in the registry were women who delivered liveborn and stillborn children, while birth defects were considered anything from facial malformations to heart anomalies.
“The duration of ...
Boys are more likely to have many major birth defects, including congenital heart disease, than girls, according to the results of a new report.
... early pregnancy were four times more likely to have babies with gastroschisis—a severe birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and other internal organs outside the abdomen, ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 17 (UPI) -- Babies born in Alaska are twice as likely to be born with major birth defects as babies in the 49 other states, a state health department study indicates.
... migraine, but that the pregnancies of women exposed to topiramate should be monitored.
This study found that more birth defects occurred in women taking topiramate along with the drug valproate, or ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research....
... on the tenth day of gestation with the severe lack of brain development that characterizes the human birth defect.
The failure of the mice to develop, as well as the extreme nature of the changes in ...
... on the market 50 years ago, only to cause perhaps the most extensive outbreak of drug-induced birth defects in medical history. Their study is scheduled for the December 1 edition of ACS' Molecular ...
... Medicine's Department of Neurosciences, has uncovered a common genetic pathway for a number of birth defects that affect the development of the heart and head. Abnormal development of the jaw, palate ...
ATLANTA, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Infants conceived using fertility clinic techniques are more likely to have certain birth defects than infants conceived naturally, a U.S. study indicates.
... (failure of one or both testicles to descend into the scrotum), the most frequent congenital birth defect in male children, are more likely to have genetic mutations, including for a syndrome that is ...
... to hairspray in the workplace during pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias, according to a new study published today in the journal ...
