(HealthDay)—Although some reports have shown that high doses of the anti-fungal drug fluconazole (Diflucan) may raise the risk of birth defects, a new Danish review finds that more commonly prescribed lower doses of the ...
Aug 28, 2013
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Researchers have known for decades that fevers in the first trimester of pregnancy increase risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as cleft lip or palate. Exactly how this happens is unclear. Scientists have ...
Oct 10, 2017
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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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Marriage between first cousins can more than double the risk of giving birth to a baby with a congenital anomaly (eg, heart and lung defects, Down syndrome), although the absolute risk is low, according to a multiethnic study ...
Jul 3, 2013
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UC San Francisco researchers have found a way to double doctors' accuracy in detecting the vast majority of complex fetal heart defects in utero—when interventions could either correct them or greatly improve a child's ...
May 26, 2021
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The epilepsy medication valproate is responsible for "severe malformations" in 2,150 to 4,100 children in France since the drug was first marketed in the country in 1967, according to a preliminary study by French health ...
Apr 20, 2017
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Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not as well known as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but like them it is a life-threatening birth defect, and is just as common. Occurring in one in 3,000 births, CDH causes ...
Mar 25, 2015
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Mums-to-be who are both overweight and smoke during their pregnancy risk damaging their baby's developing heart, finds research published online in Heart.
Jan 30, 2012
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Babies and toddlers with congenital heart disease are at an increased risk of having harmful toxins in their blood, particularly following surgery, according to research by a team at Imperial College London.
Aug 26, 2011
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A new study from the University of Minnesota Medical School and Masonic Cancer Center researchers, recently published in JAMA Cardiology, evaluated the long-term survival rate of patients with a very serious cardiac defect ...
Jan 8, 2019
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