Background Congenital anomalies are among the common health problems faced by children in low- and middle-income countries, ...

"For us, communication is about giving her as much autonomy and voice as possible," Jess Markins tells PEOPLE of her ...

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 25: The 7th International Conference on Birth Defects (ICBD 2026), held in Pune served as a monumental gathering of national and level genetics experts dedicated ...

O'Hara previously revealed she had cardiac inversus, or dextrocardia with situs inversus, meaning her heart and other internal organs are flipped.

Purpose: To assess the sociodemographic profiles, teratogen exposures, and ocular congenital abnormalities in Brazilian patients with Möbius sequence. Method: Forty-four patients were recruited from ...

Although non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is widely used to detect fetal abnormalities, the results of NIPT vary by population, and data for the screening efficiency of NIPT positive predictive ...

A congenital anomaly (con-GEN-ih-tul uh-NAW-muh-lee) is a change in the normal size, shape, or functioning of a body part caused by a condition that a baby is born with. Congenital anomalies can range ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip replacement in 2024. Although hip replacements are often thought of as a surgery that mainly older people need, reports from previous years ...

Ebstein anomaly is a defect of the tricuspid valve in the heart. It is a rare type of heart defect, occurring in about 1 out of 10,000 live births each year. The age of onset for symptoms of Ebstein ...

What are congenital hand deformities? Congenital hand and arm deformities can be any abnormalities or differences that affect the shape and/or functionality of the shoulder, arm, elbow, forearm, hand, ...