More than 67000 babies are born in India each day and most of them are healthy. India is on the second number depending on the population but it does lack a few medical health facilities that are ...

The most commonly seen defects at birth are congenital heart defects (CHD). These anomalies arise when there is a failure of the heart or its major blood vessels to form properly during embryonic ...

Women with pregestational diabetes are three to four times more likely to have a child with one or multiple birth defects compared with mothers with no diabetes, according to study results published ...

A congenital anomaly, also known as a birth defect, refers to any medical condition present from birth and the term congenital indicates that the condition was acquired in the womb. These conditions ...

The latest approval of a cancer drug by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changes the paradigm of cancer treatment — the new indication specifies a genetic defect without any mention of tumor ...