(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 ...

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

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 ...

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 25: The 7th International Conference on Birth Defects (ICBD 2026), held in Pune served as a monumental gathering of national and level genetics experts dedicated ...

The risk of being born with a major heart defect is 36% higher in babies who were conceived after assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to results of a very ...

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 ...