Anencephaly occurs when an infant is born without parts of their brain and skull. It is a severe congenital anomaly, which means that a baby develops anencephaly in the womb. Anencephaly is a ...

Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...

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 ...

May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. It is a time to direct our gaze toward people that some would rather not see. Anencephaly is a malformation of the cranium leading to severe brain damage. The child ...

Emersyn Rogers was diagnosed with anencephaly when mom was 20 weeks pregnant. — -- A couple carrying their terminally ill child to term is hoping to donate her organs and help keep other parents ...

All right, folks, I'm way overdue on checking back in with this. I first wrote about anencephaly more than a year ago, when the state Health Department issued a news release on the unusually high ...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Brazil have sent a letter to Supreme Court Minister Carmen Lucia reaffirming their defense of the lives of babies who suffer from anencephaly. The letter comes in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This retrospective study determines the prevalence of anencephaly in the region of Rijeka, Croatia. Records of all spontaneous and therapeutic ...

An Indiana mom and TV news anchor has shared details of the short life of her daughter, Emma Noelle, who was born last week with a rare and fatal birth defect. Brooke Martin gave birth to Emma Noelle ...