Birth Defects
Dr. Edward Barksdale, Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, discusses surgical correction of severe birth defects.
University Hospitals
National Birth Defects Prevention Study
This video contains information about the National Birth Defects Prevention Study through the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Birth Defects - Yale Medicine Explains
Genetic defects are a change in the sequence of your genome during embryonic development. Such mutations can lead to serious problems and make a baby ...
Yale Medicine
Beyond the Data -- Understanding the Causes of Major Birth Defects: Steps to Prevention
Dr. John Iskander and Dr. Allen Mitchell discuss some of the public health advances in preventing birth defects. Birth defects are common, occurring in 1 in 33 ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
10 Unusual Birth Defects
Here are 10 unusual birth defects. Human gestation is highly complex and in the 9 months of development many abnormalities can occur. Some are much less ...
GeoBeats Science
Specific SSRIs and birth defects: interpreting new data in the context of previous reports
The association between maternal use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), during pregnancy and birth defects in the ...
The BMJ
A drug used during pregnancy could cause birth defects for generations – BBC London News
Sodium Valproate has been used to treat epilepsy since the 1970s. But thousands of pregnant women say they weren't warned of the risks of severe birth ...
BBC London
Fatal Birth Defect- A Mom Shares Her Story - MUSC Health
At a routine 20-week ultrasound, Layna Stafford and husband Matt found out there was a potential problem with their baby boy. She was sent to the MUSC ...
MUSC Health
Cleft lip and palate among top birth defects in U.S. - how we are treating these children
Nationwide Children's Hospital's chief of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Richard Kirschner, explains how cleft lip and palate is the second most common birth defect in the ...
NationwideChildrens
Beating the Odds: Baby Overcomes Life-Threatening Birth Defect
Ivy and Dan Konet were overjoyed to find out they were pregnant until an ultrasound changed everything: Their baby's abdominal organs were developing ...
Children's Hospital Colorado
Birth Defects in Offspring of Women with Pre-Gestational Diabetes
Mary Loeken speaks about “Molecular mechanisms responsible for birth defects in the offspring of women with pre-gestational diabetes” at the Cell Press/AWIS ...
Cell Press
Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs)
Birth defects of the heart, known as a congenital heart defects, or CHDs, affect the structure of a baby's heart and the way it works. CHDs are the most common ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Investigating link between Zika and birth defects
Concerns continue to mount in the U.S. and abroad over the threat posed by the Zika virus. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook recently ...
CBS This Morning
Pregnancy, Miscarriages and Birth Defects - Research Breakthrough
A historic breakthrough at Sydney's Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute could prevent recurrent miscarriages and multiple types of birth defects, in one of ...
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Unexpected Birth Defects: How To Get You And Your Baby Through It | CHD & Craniosynostosis
Both Ryann and Whitney had sons born with medical anomalies. Ry's child came into this world with the rare heart condition called TAPVR with obstruction, and ...
Whit & Ry
Tedd's RX: Birth Defects
TTUHSCtv
Risk of Birth Defects from Assisted Reproduction
Associate Professor Michael Davies (Robinson Institute, University of Adelaide) discusses the findings of a study into the risk of major birth defects associated ...
University of Adelaide
Family Thankful after Baby’s Birth Defect Repaired in Womb
Finding out your baby has a birth defect can be devastating. Meet a mother from Oklahoma who hit the road looking for answers after her unborn son was ...
Cleveland Clinic
Baby Born With Two Heads Gets Vital Surgery | Body Bizarre
This baby girl was born with an extra head protruding from her stomach. She needs surgery to remove it so it doesn't cause further risks as she gets older.
tlc uk
Treatment for complex multiple birth defects of heart at Wockhardt Hospitals India: Blue Baby – Pink
A 6 months old, baby Zane from Zimbabwe, had a complex birth defect of heart called Blue Baby Syndrome. She underwent a successful corrective open heart ...
Wockhardt Hospitals
Birth Defects Prevention Week | India Medical Hub
Birth defects are the leading cause of death in children less than 1 year of age. Please visit #IndiaMedicalHub and share this video to help create awareness!
India Medical Hub
Health tip: Reduce the risk of birth defects during pregnancy
Reduce the risk of birth defects during pregnancy know more in this report from our health expert.
DD News
Ways to help reduce the risks of birth defects
Meena Tamakloe, Hampton Health Department's maternal and child nurse, shares information about birth defects. They are are common, costly and critical, but ...
City of Hampton, VA
Birth Defects: Causes and Prevention - Avera Medical Minute
Dr. Amal Salama with the Avera Women's Specialty Clinic and Amy Carter with the March of Dimes talk about some of the common causes of birth defects as ...
Avera McKennan
Gastroschisis: How Little Lauren Overcame Her Birth Defect
When a pregnant Kayla Perry found out her baby had a congenital disability, she turned to the Banner Children's Hospital experts to manage her high-risk ...
Banner Health
Preventing birth defects
Preventing birth defects.
WFAA
Cyclopia: A Rare Birth Defect That Could Help Cure Cancer
With a greater understanding of biological mechanisms, humans may be able to take a devastating birth defect and turn it into a treatment for cancer. We're ...
SciShow
Health Tips: Congenital anomalies or Birth defects
Birth Defects are important cause of childhood mortality . Congenital anomalies or Birth defects are either structural or functional. More in this report.
DD INDIA
Toddler with Birth Defects 'Incompatible with Life' Defies Odds in Venezuela
A toddler is defying all odds and inspiring everyone along the way. Soleannys Lugo says scans showed her unborn daughter's brain, eyes and nose hadn't ...
Inside Edition
Cluster of rare birth defects in small community
Brisbane doctors baffled by newborn abnormalities.
ABC News (Australia)
Zika Virus and Birth Defects
Since the emergence of the #Zika epidemic in 2015, infection during pregnancy has been shown to cause severe birth defects, with risk estimates ranging from ...
NEJMvideo
Points to know about birth defects | Do sperm defects cause birth defects?
Do sperm defects cause birth defects? | Correlation between sperm defects and birth defects One of the biggest nightmares about any couple even if you have a ...
IVF Specialist in India - Dr.Aniruddha Malpani
Health officials confirm Zika causes birth defects
지카 바이러스, 소두증 이외 선천적 장애 유발 가능성 있다” U.S. health officials have determined being infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy causes birth ...
Arirang News
Morning Rounds: Preventing birth defects, America's health goals, and more
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula join "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss how ...
CBS This Morning
Birth Defects of the Skull: How Soon Should Your Baby Have Surgery?
In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” weighs in on the topic of when the time is right for surgery involving ...
PRSJournal
Cluster of rare birth defects in small community
Brisbane doctors baffled by newborn abnormalities.
ABC News (Australia)
Hope for Toddler with Rare Birth Defects?
The Doctors and Angelique meet orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dror Paley, founder and director of the Paley Institute, who shares some amazing new with Angelique, ...
The Doctors
What are the causes of birth defects?
The cause of birth defects, unfortunately for the majority, so anywhere from 70%-80% of birth defects, we do not know the cause. Most likely it's an environmental ...
IntermountainMoms
Does IVF Cause Birth Defects?
Dr. Randall Loy answers this crucial question with a resounding "No!" in this episode of The Infertility Channel. Citing three large international studies, results ...
InfertilityChannel
The common birth defect in boys no one talks about
The common birth defect in boys no one talks about.
WFAA
Preventing Genetic Defects
Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports on breakthroughs in genetic technology that will prevent genetic abnormalities in newborns, including a way to create viable embryos ...
CBS News
Spina Bifida: Birth Defect Affects Hispanic Children More than Others
Spina bifida is a birth defect that occurs when the backbone and the spinal canal fail to close. It happens most often in the first few months of pregnancy. Children ...
KPBS
