Topic: United States

No extra birth defect risk after cancer treatment: study

(Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said.Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical ...

No extra birth defect risk after cancer treatment

(Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said.Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical ...

Colorado pharmacy mistake puts woman's pregnancy at risk

DENVER (Reuters) - A Safeway Inc. pharmacist mistakenly sold a pregnant Colorado woman a powerful anti-cancer drug that may cause birth defects or miscarriages, the grocery chain said on Tuesday.Mareena Silva was six weeks pregnant when she went to a Safeway pharmacy ...

Likely no tie between male birth defect, chemical

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's no link between pregnant women drinking water with a chemical linked to disinfectants and the rate of a particular male birth defect, says a study in today's issue of the journal Pediatrics.The birth defect is hypospadias, ...
EPA fines West's largest toxic dump for improper disposal of cancer-causing chemicalsA vast toxic waste dump at the center of a birth defects controversy in Central California has been fined more than $300,000 for allowing cancer-causing chemicals to leach into the soil, ...
There's little benefit to parents or baby in learning before birth that a newborn will have a cleft lip/palate, a new study suggests.. Researchers led by Dr. James Robbins, of the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects and Prevention, interviewed 235 mothers of ...
There's little benefit to parents or baby in learning before birth that a newborn will have a cleft lip/palate, a new study suggests.. ers led by Dr. James Robbins, of the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects and Prevention, interviewed 235 mothers of ...
State probe finds no common cause for birth defects near West's largest toxic waste dumpCalifornia health officials said Monday they found no common cause for birth defects plaguing infants in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town where residents are battling plans ...

Congenital Heart Defects

Defect in structure of heart of newborn Affects 1 in 125 babies born America's #1 birth defect Cause of most unknown NSWHealth:

Correcting a cleft lip

When a tiny fetus is developing in the womb, the right and left sides of the lip and the roof of the mouth fuse together. However, one out of 800 babies in America are born with a birth defect in which the ...
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