Mom-and-pop shops will be exempt from this change, but big manufacturers in California will need to start adding folic acid ...

Changes are coming to tortillas in California in the new year, with a new law requiring manufacturers to add folic acid to ...

California now requires tortillas to be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects in the Latino community, where ...

Like most pregnant women, Deborah Dorbert of Lakeland went for a routine anatomy scan of her unborn baby at 23 weeks. The results spiraled into a nightmare scenario and the eventual death of Dorbert’s ...

Birth defects associated with Zika infection include microcephaly and other fetal brain defects, abnormal eye development and nerve damage. As of June 9 in the U.S. and the District of Columbia, three ...

One in 33 babies in the United States are born with birth defects. But a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising awareness of ways to lower that risk. The study points ...

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 ...

Getting an mRNA COVID-19 shot during the first trimester of pregnancy didn't lead to an increased risk of major structural birth defects, a multisite retrospective cohort study found. Major structural ...

Almut Winterstein receives funding from NIH, FDA, CDC, AHRQ, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the state of Florida, and Merck, Sharp and Dohme. She has received consulting honoraria from Novo ...

In cases of mild congenital heart defects, more prenatal visits are associated with a greater likelihood of appropriate delivery at a community hospital, according to a study published in JAMA Network ...

Infant mortality attributed to congenital anomalies in Florida jumped to its highest level in at least six years in October 2023. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed ...