The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...

The most recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveals cases of gastroschisis, a serious birth defect of the abdominal wall, have more than doubled over the past 18 years in the U.S. Babies ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A long-awaited study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a link between tainted tap water at a U.S. Marine Corps base in North Carolina and increased risk ...

California now requires folic acid in corn masa flour — a staple in many Latino households — in an effort to close a ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

Infants of mothers treated in the first trimester of pregnancy with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) antibiotics for urinary tract infection (UTI) appeared to ...

Researchers investigating a widely used medication have uncovered an unexpected cellular process that may interfere with ...

Analysis of U.S. survey data showed that two-thirds of reproductive age women had one or more modifiable risk factors for birth defects. Common risk factors included obesity, folate concentrations ...