While a majority of preemies live into adulthood, Ahmed said there's growing evidence that they have an increased risk of ...

State product warnings have tied an official Apple accessory, used to charge iPhones, to a controversial compound. 'Should I ...

A Canadian woman who identifies as an “unapologetically fat intersectional feminist” won her bid to bring an obstetrician to ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don't fully understand what causes them ...

The birth defect can lead to a range of lifelong cognitive ... Preliminary work by Farmer and Wang proved that prenatal surgery combined with human placenta-derived mesenchymal stromal cells, held in ...

The Government has confirmed this is an “important issue” and that it will consider changes to the law. Norway has banned marriage between close relatives. Officials in Sweden last month ...

Abnormalities in heart formation, the most common form of human birth defects, afflict nearly 1% of newborns, and their frequency in spontaneously aborted pregnancies is estimated to be tenfold ...

A research team reported recently that heart muscle cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells can integrate into the hearts of monkeys with a state of pressure overload.

The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects. Folic acid deficiency is a leading cause of ...