Sexually Transmitted Disease, Urinary Tract Infections May Be Bad Combination For Birth Defect
Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 23:28
in Health & Medicine
Women who reported having both a sexually transmitted disease and urinary tract infection just before or during 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.