SALT LAKE CITY – A multistate study led by researchers at the University of Utah has revealed that the risk for childhood cancer is moderately increased among children and young adolescents with ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Offspring of women with cancer had higher risk for birth defects compared with offspring of women without cancer ...

Listen to an interview about the research on The Scope Radio. (Salt Lake City) – Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not as well known as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but like them it ...

January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Nurse Al Romeo from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services is here to give us a few tips to help prevent birth defects. Are birth ...

A recent study has uncovered new information about orofacial development in mice that researchers believe could one day help reduce the risk of certain birth defects in humans. Cleft lip and palate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Cleft palates, one of the ...

Birth defects are structural or functional abnormalities that are present at birth and usually cause disabilities and even early death among children. However, with proper maternal nutrition before ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women with frequent exposure to solvents at work may be at higher risk of having babies with birth defects, French researchers have found. Both self-reported ...

The hole-in-the-heart problem that plagues comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s newborn son is one of the most common heart-related birth defects, and it usually can be fixed with surgery. Some people even live ...

More than 1,000 Arizona infants are born with birth defects every year. An average of 1,018 infants per year were born with birth defects in the state of Arizona between 2003 and 2007, according to ...

There is nothing more joyful than the birth of a child. It is said that a woman becomes a mother the instant she learns she is pregnant and begins to take better care of herself. Unfortunately, ...