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Many brands of multivitamins for pregnant women may not contain all the iodine they claim, potentially putting babies at risk of poor brain development, a new study suggests.

What is tracheoesophageal fistula?
Tracheoesophageal fistula is an abnormal connection in one or more places between the esophagus (the tube that leads from the throat to the stomach) and the trachea (the tube that leads from the throat to the windpipe and lungs). Normally, the esophagus and the trachea are two separate tubes that are not [...]

Breastfeeding a child with special needs can present specific problems, but the benefits to both mother and child are numerous. Beyond giving proper nourishment, it allows the mother and child to bond.

Women exposed in utero to the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) which was used until the mid-1970s for miscarriage prevention, appear to be at increased risk of having children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, Dutch and US researchers report in the July issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Janine F. Felix [...]

A study by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that babies conceived through in vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection have a higher rate of birth defects than babies conceived naturally.

For pregnant women it is shocking but true, on-the-job exposure to hair sprays significantly increases the risk that male children will have one of the most common urogenital defects, researchers here have found. A case-control study of boys born with hypospadias – abnormal placement of the urethra – showed that prenatal exposure to hair sprays [...]

I recently read this article by, Luke Timmerman. I was very interested in it and I wnated to share it with others as well.Sequenom has its sights on developing more than just the first non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome. Today, scientists affiliated with the San Diego-based biotech company are reporting how their methods [...]

Oak Harbour, WA: Sara was prescribed Symbyax, which contains the SSRI Prozac, in her third trimester of pregnancy because her psychiatrist was concerned that she would have issues of post-partum depression. Unfortunately, Sara’s son was born with serious birth defects—birth defects that are very possibly SSRI-related.Just hours after Sara had given birth the doctors ordered [...]

Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.
Imperial College London scientists talked to women who had babies with hypospadias, where the urinary tract is found away from the penis.
They reported that hairspray exposure more than doubled the risk.
The study in the [...]

Mothers who get pregnant with the help of medical techniques such as in vitro fertilization are two to four times more likely to have a child with certain birth defects, according to a national study announced Monday.
The study of 14,376 infants in Arkansas and nine other states found the risk of having a baby with [...]