After the troubling discovery earlier this year that Yakima County had logged an unexpectedly high number of fatal birth defects in 2012, the state Department of Health said Tuesday that its ...

Couples in south central Washington face a difficult reality. They are four times more likely to conceive a child with a fatal birth defect. Since 2010, 31 babies in Yakima, Benton and Franklin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catherine Mornhineway said during a 14-week ultrasound, a doctor diagnosed her unborn baby with anencephaly, a fatal birth defect.

A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

The rate of spina bifida and anencephaly birth defects has fallen by more than one-third since the addition in 1998 of folic acid to the nation's enriched flours, rice and pastas, according to study a ...

The UK's new legal requirement for folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour does not go far enough and a bolder policy would prevent hundreds more birth defects each year, say researchers ...

TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — A Tampa couple is grieving the loss of their daughter who was born with a rare but fatal birth defect. Catherine Mornhineway and Andrew Ford said they got the devastating ...