Minnesota is the first U.S. state to universally test newborns for cytomegalovirus, an easily transmissible virus and a leading cause of infant hearing loss and congenital birth defects.
Feb 9, 2023
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There's good news for American mothers-to-be and their newborns: Rates of smoking during pregnancy have fallen by 36% since 2016, a new report finds.
Jan 31, 2023
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An Australian register set up to help pregnant women with epilepsy has helped dramatically reduce the number of stillbirths and birth defects such as spina bifida, and the resulting costs to the community, a new Monash University ...
Jan 23, 2023
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An alarming increase in the occurrence of the most common genital malformation in male babies, hypospadias, is likely due to environmental factors, such as toxicant exposure, which alter epigenetic programming in a forming ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Researchers and clinicians from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have for the first time conducted a shape analysis of the fetal aorta to detect a congenital heart defect before birth. Their research ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Young women diagnosed with breast cancer often must delay pregnancy for years while they take hormone-blocking pills.
Dec 8, 2022
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified several genetic variants associated with increased risk of cancer in children with non-chromosomal birth defects, such as congenital heart disease ...
Nov 30, 2022
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Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have developed and released the first open access atlas of the developing brain in fetuses with spina bifida aperta (SBA) between 21 weeks and 34 weeks ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Researchers at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan have discovered a blood test that uses artificial intelligence and genetic-related biomarkers in pregnant women to accurately detect fetal congenital heart defects well ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Stillbirth is a recognized complication of COVID-19 in pregnant women caused by harmful changes to the placenta induced by the virus. Termed SARS-CoV-2 placentitis, it can render the placenta incapable of providing oxygen ...
Oct 12, 2022
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