... scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may lead to new understandings about human birth defects ...
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....
... . About eight percent of babies born preterm had a birth defect, according to the research by a team of investigators from the March ... supported those of earlier, smaller studies. “The causes of most birth defects are still not known,” says Margaret Honein ...
... who delivered liveborn and stillborn children, while birth defects were considered anything from facial malformations to heart anomalies. “The duration of antidepressant use in the first trimester ...
Boys are more likely to have many major birth defects, including congenital heart disease, than girls, according to the results of a new report.
... times more likely to have babies with gastroschisis—a severe birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and other internal ... , the Utah Department of Health, and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, conducted their study ...
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.
... has shown that many epilepsy drugs increase the risk of birth defects, but little research has been done on topiramate ... exposed to topiramate should be monitored. This study found that more birth defects occurred in women taking topiramate ...
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....
... test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study ... lack of brain development that characterizes the human birth defect. The failure of the mice to develop, as well ...
... 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 Pharmaceutics ...
... , has uncovered a common genetic pathway for a number of birth defects that affect the development of the heart and head ... are essential for normal development and might lead to these birth defects. These findings link together several ...
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.
... 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 a common genetic cause ...
... pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias, according to a new study published ... a significant link between hairspray and hypospadias, one of the most common birth defects of the male genitalia, where the urinary ...
