Topic: Birth Defects
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-19 16:18:46
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account for the link.</p><p>Studies on ...
AP News | 2010-02-16 20:55:19
<div id="subtitle">DNA studies reveal a frail King Tut who died at 19 from a broken leg complicated by malaria</div><div><p>Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-08 19:17:29
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Chicago.</p><p>About 1 in 5000 babies born ...
AP News | 2010-02-05 18:09:42
Daria Hernandez holds her twenty-month-old son, Ivan at her home Wednesday February, 3, 2010 in Kettleman City, Calif. Ivan has suffered through two surgeries to repair a cleft palate and his mother believes it is a birth defect because they ...
