A UK mother with a 1-year-old has revealed that her son’s life feels like a powder keg due to his medical condition. Nine months after he was born, Emma Brazier’s son Lucas was diagnosed with ...

Congenital heart disease refers to heart defects present at birth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1% of US infants, or about 40,000 children each year, are born ...

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

Consulting experts can make contemporaneous observations of a defect and perform tests that may not be possible to replicate later. The expert can, in consultation with counsel, create the ...

For pregnant women infected with Zika virus in the first trimester, the future is foreboding. Nearly 11 percent of U.S. women likely exposed to Zika in the early weeks of or just before pregnancy had ...

Washoe County, Nevada, U.S., experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 - April 2008. Gastroschisis is a birth defect that occurs early in ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

In addition to surface and subsurface defects, residual stress represents a concern. Over time, these stress points, ...