Upon return from their very (very, very, very) lengthy summer break, Senate Democrats blocked a $1.1 billion Zika…
On Saturday, August 6, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued that a woman infected with the Zika virus should not be…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that while city dwellers aren’t currently at risk for…
In the past few years, "non-invasive" prenatal screening tests have flooded the market, which claim to be able to…
It's tough to find a job in this sluggish economy, but now, thanks to a law about to take effect in the state of…
Men who huff paint or gas all day while on the job should probably be extra cautious about what they're exposing…
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Georgia is just a governor's signature away from totally banning abortions that occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy…
Former Senator Rick Santorum cancelled his Presidential campaign stops in Florida yesterday after his 3-year-old…
Five women claim that their children's birth defects -– including scoliosis, partial blindness, and ADHD -– were…
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Two medical associations recently released a report advocating that decisions on depression treatment for pregnant…
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An infant in China was born with a rare medical condition: he has two penises. And one of them is located in the…
Shockingly, injecting botulinum toxin into pregnant women may cause birth defects in their unborn children,…
With another day comes yet another study of the effects of abortion on women. The newest study by researchers at…
Women who take antidepressant fluoxetine (the generic name for Prozac) during pregnancy are four times as likely to…
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Babies conceived through medical procedures used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than infants conceived naturally, according to a new study. The defects include heart problems, cleft lip, cleft palate and abnormalities in the esophagus or rectum, according to the…
Researchers at the University of Utah have found that gastroschisis, a serious birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and organs outside of their abdomen, is linked to STDs and UTIs contracted just before or during pregnancy. Although the causes for gastroschisis are not known, women in the…
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Cindy McCain is in Vietnam today on behalf of the group Operation Smile, which repairs the cleft lips and palates of…
Because we continue to be spellbound by her adorableness and her condition, we bring you the happy news that our…
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While we could have chosen a photo of Lakshmi all two-legged and wrapped in bandages with a breathing tube off her doctors' computer screen, our hormones just wouldn't let us not publish this photo. Lakshmi, who we cooed over yesterday, survived her 24 hour and $625,000 pro-bono surgery yesterday! She may have to have…
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