People born with major birth defects face a higher risk of cancer throughout life, although the relative risk is greatest in childhood and then declines, finds a new study. People born with major ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Calvinette Cleveland was born with a faulty heart, but it didn’t start causing her trouble until she was 65. A few years ...

DALLAS, Texas Nov. 23, 2015 -- Adults with congenital heart defects ... A congenital heart defect is a heart abnormality present at birth. These defects encompass a wide range of disease entities ...

Congenital heart defect is the most common birth defect,” said Cortes, who co-chairs the patient and family advisory board of the Adult Congenital Heart Association. “I would encourage them to ...

If CMV can infect a fetus and cause birth defects, then why aren't pregnant people tested and treated for this virus too? Prenatal CMV screening is not standard of care due to several limitations ...

As a result, there are now more adults living ... refers to any structural defect of the heart and/or great vessels (those directly connected to the heart) present at birth. Congenital heart ...

"Most people think of birth defects as something that is not preventable," said Dr. Jose Cordero, the U.S. assistant surgeon general and birth defects chief at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Heart defects were the most common birth defect, followed by flaws in the ... Journal of Medicine found that more than 2 billion adults and children globally are overweight or obese; that equates ...

The question of why most studies find birth defects to be more common among IVF-conceived babies, though, remains to be answered. It's possible that the same reasons people have trouble conceiving ...

Pregnant people are most vulnerable to these exposures ... alcohol and smoking are some of the most preventable causes of birth defects or disabilities. In some cases, prenatal exposure to alcohol ...

Nearly a fifth of the pregnant people, around 7,600 ... most vulnerable periods of pregnancy for harmful exposures and birth defects — the researchers said, with 19,000 not receiving a vaccine ...