(Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said.

Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have wondered whether it is because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself. A large new study from Australia suggests ...

The risk of congenital malformations appears to be lower with buprenorphine than with methadone when taken during the first trimester of pregnancy for opioid use disorder (OUD), according to an ...

Scientists are moving toward a genetic test that could help thousands of mothers with epilepsy safely take life-saving ...

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 ...

Congenital heart disease or defect is a common type of birth defect that needs medical attention. The exact cause is unclear, but it may be connected to genetic factors or the mother's health ...

Methods We linked a census of treatment with assisted reproductive technology in South Australia to a registry of births and terminations with a gestation period of at least 20 weeks or a birth weight ...

Kate Cooper can smile and laugh now, but that wasn't the case about a year and a half ago. At 20 weeks, Copper learned her baby had Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia or 'CDH,' a defect in an unborn baby ...

Compared to those conceived naturally, babies that resulted from simple IVF, or in vitro fertilization -- mixing eggs and sperm in a lab dish -- had no greater risk of birth defects once factors such ...