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WHO urges countries to expand newborn screening for birth defects

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on countries to expand newborn screening for birth defects, highlighting how ...
Leadership

WHO Calls For Expanded Newborn Screening To Save Children

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on countries to expand newborn screening programmes for birth defects, warning ...
AllAfrica on MSN

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening to improve early detection and care of birth defects

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on countries to expand newborn screening for birth defects, highlighting how early detection and treatment can save lives and reduce lifelong disability ...

WHO Calls For Urgent Expansion Of Newborn Screening To Prevent Deaths And Lifelong Disability

WHO urges expanding newborn screening to curb child mortality from birth defects, especially in low- and middle-income ...
Vanguard

WHO raises alarm over birth defects, calls for wider newborn screening

Tedros By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organisation, (WHO) on Tuesday raised concerns over the growing burden of birth ...
Medical Xpress

No evidence quit smoking treatments increase risk of major birth defects

Pregnant women can be reassured that quit-smoking medicines such as nicotine patches and varenicline do not increase the risk of major birth defects in babies, according to new research from the ...
Newsday

Fertility Treatments Aren't Significantly Linked to Birth Defects

The risk of birth defects is low among children conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART), according to a new study. Researchers examined more than 300,000 births in Massachusetts ...

Common painkillers safe during pregnancy, don't raise birth defect risk, Israeli study finds

A large Ben-Gurion University of the Negev study challenges concerns over common painkillers in pregnancy, finding no link to birth defects.
Medscape

ANSM Report Examines Risk for Valproic Acid Birth Defect

SAINT-DENIS, France — France's national agency for health and product safety, L'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM), and the national insurance fund for employed ...
Medical Xpress

Novel intercellular mechanisms may inform treatments for congenital spinal defects

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified novel mechanisms regulating the development of the spinal column during embryonic development, findings that could inform new treatments for ...
Nature

Structural birth defects and leukemia risk in children with Down syndrome

Birth defects are associated with increased cancer risk in the general pediatric population, yet their impact on leukemia risk in children with Down syndrome (DS) remains uncertain. We assessed this ...
Pharmabiz

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening for early detection of birth defects

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening for early detection of birth defects: Geneva Friday, June 26, 2026, 15:00 Hrs [IST] The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on count ...