Anencephaly is a birth defect in which the brain and bones of the skull don’t form completely while the baby is in the womb. As a result, the baby’s brain, particularly the cerebral cortex ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Emma Noelle lived for 21 minutes. Anencephaly is a rare birth defect that leaves newborns without the tops of their skulls and brain. Martin and her husband, Cole, shared the diagnosis in November ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When Krysta was 18 weeks pregnant, she learned that her daughter had anencephaly, a serious birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. Life expectancy ranges ...

The Missouri couple was given the heartbreaking news that their soon-to-be little girl would be born with a fatal birth defect called anencephaly, where the child is born with an undeveloped skull ...