On World Birth Defects Day, India's congenital anomalies burden is spotlighted with roughly 472,000 affected births annually, ...

Smile Train India and the Birth Defects Research Foundation have launched BIND, a national initiative to address birth anomalies in India. Aimed at prevention, early detection, and treatment, BIND ...

Data scientists have created an artificial intelligence model that may more accurately predict which existing medicines, not currently classified as harmful, may in fact lead to congenital ...

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 ...

New Delhi [India], March 5: Smile Train India and the Birth Defects Research Foundation announced the launch of BIND - Birth Anomalies Network of India, a first-of-its-kind national forum aimed at ...

Data scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and colleagues have created an artificial intelligence model that may more accurately predict which existing medicines, not ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A woman's use of decongestant medications in the first trimester of pregnancy may raise her child's risk of certain rare birth defects, according to a small study. Some ...

Getting an mRNA COVID-19 shot during the first trimester of pregnancy didn't lead to an increased risk of major structural birth defects, a multisite retrospective cohort study found. Major structural ...

Analysis of U.S. survey data showed that two-thirds of reproductive age women had one or more modifiable risk factors for birth defects. Common risk factors included obesity, folate concentrations ...

ATLANTA -- So many new mothers lie when asked whether they drank alcohol during pregnancy that some national statistics on birth defects should be thrown out, a government study says. Only about one ...

Teenager Deiglis waits with her baby to receive a contraceptive implant at an outpatient clinic set up by the Doctors Without Borders NGO - Copyright AFP SANJAY ...