In a recent Birth Defects Research study, United States-based scientists determined that infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the first trimester of ...

Women prescribed the antiemetic agent metoclopramide during pregnancy appear to be at no significantly increased risk for adverse outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, and infants with ...

A new study that examined older and newer medications to treat seizures has found that using some medications during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of malformations at birth, or birth ...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a dangerous malformation of the lungs and diaphragm that causes almost a third of affected babies to die from underdeveloped lungs. Medical researchers made ...

Large Nordic cohort data show no significant rise in birth-defect risk from topical retinoids in early pregnancy. Find out more about the study’s findings.

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 ...

Doctors are seeing an alarming increase in cases of a specific genital malformation in male babies, and new research suggests environmental factors might be at play. The malformation is known as ...

In utero embolization of fetuses with vein of Galen malformation (VOGM) was feasible, according to early results from a single-center intervention study. The three survivors out of seven participants ...

Surgeons have successfully performed a first-of-its-kind procedure in utero to treat a potentially fatal genetic defect in the brain. Usually treated after birth, the new procedure could give newborns ...