The New Year is a time to evaluate and to take steps to improve our lives. Obviously, birth is the ultimate new beginning, and it is appropriate that this month is National Birth Defects Awareness ...

(Family Features) An estimated 1 in 33 babies is born with a birth defect, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While some require minimal intervention after birth, many ...

There's a largely hidden epidemic of birth defects running through the world's infants and children, striking about 8 million every year, about 6 percent of those born, according to a new study. An ...

Up to 53 million American women of childbearing age have at least one risk factor that increases the odds of severe birth defects. A CDC study including survey responses from more than 5,300 women as ...

Denmark becomes the first EU country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis through nationwide ...