After releasing the latest data on the persistently high numbers of a rare and fatal birth defect in Yakima, Benton and Franklin counties, the state Department of Health has set dates for two ...
Nearly a decade ago, an anencephaly cluster in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties made headlines. Anencephaly is a fatal congenital malformation where major parts of the brain and skull fail to form ...
Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...
Birth defects affect millions of babies each year, but many can be prevented or detected early. Experts explain why antenatal ...
Newborns, whose brains, spines or spinal cords do not properly develop in utero, can be born with neural tube defects (NTD), increasing their risk of physical disabilities, intellectual impairments ...
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 ...
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital presents the Fetal Medicine Webinar series. These webinars will feature lectures provided by leading international experts in fetal surgery and ...
Babies who were exposed to certain organic pollutants in the womb are at a highly increased risk of neural tube defects leading to conditions such as spina bifida, according to researchers in China.