January marks National Birth Defects Prevention Month, and local organizations are working together to raise awareness about ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

Around 6 percent of fetuses or infants born to U.S. women with laboratory evidence of possible recent Zika infection showed evidence of Zika-related birth defects, according to a study published in ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Three babies with Zika-linked birth defects have been born in the U.S., the government reported Thursday in its first accounting of outcomes for pregnant women infected with the ...

Maternal exposure to sulfur dioxide during the first trimester was associated with higher odds of congenital limb defects in ...

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 ...

Practitioners who treat mothers and babies before and after birth are uniting to spread the word about birth defects. The ...