What a father eats before conception may affect his baby's risk of birth defects, suggests a new study on mice conducted by researchers from McGill University in Montreal. The rate of birth defects ...

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 ...

Studies from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), based on analysis of over 264,000 pregnancies, show NSAIDs safe in ...

Researchers have found no evidence linking the use of common painkillers during early pregnancy with major birth defects, Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev said in a statement on Tuesday. 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 ...

Compared with unvaccinated pregnant women, those who had received an mRNA COVID vaccine in the first trimester did not have a significantly increased risk for major congenital malformations. However, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Parenting a kid with birth defects is not only emotionally draining but also poses unique challenges ...

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 ...