Opponents of birthright citizenship say it leads to “birth tourism.” Researchers estimated that 5,000 to 26,000 foreign pregnant women travel to the U.S. annually to give birth, a tiny slice of annual ...

A medical diagnostics company, ISN Medical, has launched a campaign to screen one million newborns in Nigeria for congenital and inherited conditions from 2026 to 2030, aimed at improving early ...

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

Researchers found no higher miscarriage or birth defect rates for women taking drugs like Ozempic, but doctors urge caution during pregnancy. Experts encourage stopping the drugs about two months ...

Endometriosis was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genital, and musculoskeletal anomalies as well as neoplasms and tumours, which could be only partially ...

Scientists have identified novel genetic interactions that may contribute to congenital heart disease (CHD), a common birth defect. Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and ...

U.S. Army Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over agricultural land during the Vietnam War in its herbicidal warfare campaign. (Wikimedia Commons) A Connecticut Army veteran and his daughter filed ...

A U.S. Air Force C-123 flies along a South Vietnamese highway in May 1966, spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War ...

A new study reveals that high doses of antioxidants—often seen as harmless or beneficial—may actually impact future generations. Male mice given common supplements like NAC produced offspring with ...

WASHINGTON — Legislation to expand research on birth defects among children of toxic-exposed veterans passed the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Wednesday, along with two other bills that aim to ...

Hailey Bieber has really opened up — and luckily, so did her uterus. On an episode of the podcast “She MD” this week, the beauty entrepreneur sat down with co-hosts Mary Alice Haney and Dr. Thaïs ...