Catherine Mornhineway and her partner, Andrew Ford, discovered their unborn baby girl had a serious birth defect known as ...

Tortillas sold in California are getting a new ingredient addition, in hopes that it will help raise healthier babies.

Pasta and bread have to include folic acid, a vitamin that’s important for infant health. Now, California is requiring that ...

The UK's new legal requirement for folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour does not go far enough and a bolder policy would prevent hundreds more birth defects each year, say researchers ...

ABSTRACT: Anencephaly is a congenital malformation of the central nervous system involving the neural tube. It is a lethal condition with a 100% mortality rate. The condition can be diagnosed ...

A Shawnee family is optimistic as their infant daughter, born with a rare respiratory defect, continues to recover after undergoing life-saving surgery at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital. A Shawnee ...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab said on Wednesday it would stop developing its experimental vaccine to prevent cytomegalovirus, a virus that can cause birth defects, after it failed ...

The expansive new study comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing rollback of vaccine recommendations Getty An expansive new study of more than half a million infants found that the COVID-19 ...

The results of a large study in France are consistent with previous research indicating that Covid vaccination is safe and effective in pregnancy. By Maggie Astor A study of hundreds of thousands of ...

A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...