How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in ...
New research from a team in China has uncovered a novel variant in the MYO1D gene that is linked to laterality defects, congenital heart diseases, and sperm defects in humans. Laterality defects ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the ...
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have published two large-scale studies involving more than 264,000 ...
BACKGROUND: Congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect and a leading cause of infant mortality, is ...
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. The study points ...
Imagine the shock of your baby being born with a swollen brain, blindness and debilitating seizures. Now imagine learning that these devastating conditions could have been prevented if you took a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study in nearly 70,000 pregnant women has found no link between migraine drugs called triptans and the risk of birth defects. However, the researchers did find a "slight ...