but she already knows the baby is there — and that the child she’s carrying suffers from a rare and fatal birth defect known as anencephaly. So the 23-year-old farmworker from Yakima ...

Anencephaly is a birth defect, almost always fatal, where the neural tubes in the fetus do not close properly. As a result, the forward part the fetus' brain is not developed and the other part of ...

The CDC estimates that 1 in 4,600 infants in the U.S. has anencephaly at birth. According to the Fetal Health Foundation, around half of all babies with neural tube defects (NTDs) have anencephaly.

In her 30-year career as a nurse, Sara Barron had seen only two babies with anencephaly, a tragic birth defect in which infants are born missing parts of their brain and skull. Then in 2012 ...

Currently, the debate continues over the reasons for the first dramatic outbreak of anencephaly, as well as similar patterns of birth defects that have followed throughout the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

says she has reported “eight or nine” additional cases of anencephaly and spina bifida, another birth defect in which the neural tube, which forms the brain and spine, fails to close properly.

“These are babies, for god’s sake,” she added. Anencephaly is a rare birth defect caused when the neural tube, which forms the brain and spinal cord, fails to close properly during early ...

That year, Barron encountered two cases of babies born with anencephaly - a neural tube birth defect that causes infants to be born without certain areas of the brain and skull. A devastating ...

Maria Rosario Perez lived for a few short hours after she was born. The cause of Maria's birth defect, anencephaly is still unknown. . It’s striking at an alarming rate — about four times the ...

Three counties in south central Washington have seen an uptick in cases of anencephaly, a fatal birth defect in which the baby is born with an incomplete brain and skull. Normally, one or two ...

There’s barely a bump beneath Jocelyn Robles’ gray T-shirt, but she already knows the baby is there — and that the child she’s carrying suffers from a rare and fatal birth defect known as anencephaly.