Deformities of the head and facial bones, such as cleft lip or cleft palate, are among the most common and debilitating human birth defects, affecting about 1 in 500 births in developed countries.

Engineering mini human hearts to study pregnancy complications and birth defects Story by Brett Volmert, Michigan State University; Aitor Aguirre, Michigan State University, and Aleksandra Kostina ...

In a prospective, nonrandomized study, women who took pregabalin while pregnant were more likely to have babies with major birth defects (6.0%) compared with women who did not take the drug (2.1% ...

Mothers who eat a high fat diet before and during pregnancy may be putting their offspring at risk of birth defects, scientists said on Tuesday. IE 11 is not supported.

In the United States, about 150,000 children are born with one or more birth defects every year, according to the American Pregnancy Association. And the cause of more than half of them are still ...

Mouse embryos exposed to valproic acid in the womb develop similar birth defects to human embryos. The far left mouse embryo in this photo was not exposed to the drug, but the right two were.

Link between human birth defect syndrome, cancer metastasis explored. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 02 / 100203131403.htm ...

Researchers studied 645 infants with birth defects and 330 without in a case-controlled study. ... Dr. Richard J. Deckelbaum, director of Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition, ...

They hope that the discovery, which provides the first dog model for the craniofacial defect, will lead to a better understanding of cleft palate in humans. Although cleft palate is one of the most ...