Denmark: Maternal thyroid hormone levels in early pregnancy may not increase the risk of birth defects in children, a large ...

Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet when ...

Congenital heart defects (abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth) are the most common type of birth defect and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 4 ...

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

About 30% of deaths among children under five in Malaysia between 2018 and 2022 were related to congenital conditions.

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 ...

Know how essential nutrients during pregnancy support fetal brain development, prevent birth defects, and strengthen immunity ...

January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Nurse Al Romeo from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services is here to give us a few tips to help prevent birth defects. Are birth ...

Hailey Bieber has really opened up — and luckily, so did her uterus. On an episode of the podcast “She MD” this week, the ...

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