A new bill up for debate could help reduce the risk of birth defects. The bill looks to fortify enriched grain products with ...

New California law adding folic acid to corn masa will help reduce birth defects in the Latino and Hispanic community.

According to the CDC, a baby is born with a major birth defect every 4.5 minutes in the U.S. North Dakota Health and Human ...

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

SHREVEPORT, La. - January is the month to raise awareness about birth defects, how to prevent them, and how to support those affected. A birth defect is a health condition a baby develops before birth ...

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

The most recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveals cases of gastroschisis, a serious birth defect of the abdominal wall, have more than doubled over the past 18 years in the U.S. Babies ...

According to the CDC, every 4.5 minutes a baby is born with a birth defect. While it can often be scary for a new parent to ...

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 ...

Early results of new studies of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) blockbuster antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) show an increase in the risk of congenital birth defects when pregnant mothers taking the drug ...