Topic: Birth Defects

Heart Disease And Defects Affect All Ages

Nine-year-old Tricia Withrow makes her open heart surgery a few years ago sound pretty simple. She said, "My heart was hurting, and they told me I...

Grey's Anatomy star's extra toes

Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo displayed her own extra anatomical features while on a stroll in California, the Daily Mail reported. . . The ...

Lad does back flip in wheelchair

A TEEN paraplegic daredevil has performed the world's first double back flip in a wheelchair. . . . . . . Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham from Las...

‘Your five-week-old girl is, actually, a boy’

A NORTH-EAST couple have spoken of their shock after being told that their baby girl is actually a baby boy. . . Five weeks after giving birth to a ...

Mum told: 'Your baby girl's a boy!'

Meet baby Dylan, formerly baby Olivia. First-time parents Claire Robson and Andrew O'Shaughnessy were shocked when they discovered their baby girl...

Brave little Lauren defies the odds

A community is rallying to fund comforts and pleasures for a seriously-ill Norfolk baby whose life could end at any time.. Lauren Taylor has the...

Tears to my eyes

EPA OKs more hazardous waste for Calif. toxic dump blamed by residents for birth defectsThe Environmental Protection Agency says a central California landfill that local residents blame for birth defects can continue accepting hazardous waste.The landfill

Mother's diet, genes raise birth defect risk: study

LONDON (Reuters) - Mothers who eat a high fat diet before and during pregnancy may be putting their offspring at risk of birth defects, scientists said on Tuesday.British researchers studying mice found that a pregnant mother's diet may interact with the
Grieving parents testified Thursday before California legislators about a rash of infant deaths and birth defects in an impoverished farm town next to the biggest hazardous waste landfill in the West."How many more children will have to be born with these