Giving birth to an infant with a major congenital anomaly was associated with a small but statistically significant increased risk for maternal death, a large, population-based cohort study has found.

I am so, so thankful for the surgeons, by whose hands God has worked a miracle,” Keishera Joubert tells PEOPLE ...

One in 45 babies delivered in 2020 in England was born with a congenital anomaly, according to the findings of a new report from NHS Digital. The rate represents a 9% increase in the 5 years since the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Congenital anomalies were present in 6.4% of those with anogenital infantile hemangiomas. Ulceration was most ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Extracardiac anomalies, including structural brain anomalies, were frequently detected on fetal MRI among ...

To investigate the association between maternal body mass index (BMI) and major, structural congenital anomalies. Data on all singleton pregnancies booked at five maternity units in the north of ...

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 female organs develop from the Mullerian ducts, which are a pair of organs found early in intrauterine life. Each gives rise to half of the uterus and one fallopian tube, which later fuse together ...

Survival for a baby born with a birth defect – otherwise known as a congenital anomaly – is dependent on where you are born, a new study reveals. Babies born with birth defects involving the ...

Surveillance is defined as ‘the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data, reflecting the current status of a community or population’. 1 Congenital anomaly ...