The babies were born without brains and no one knew why. Between 2010 and 2014, dozens of infants in three central Washington counties died of anencephaly, a typically rare birth defect. The gruesome ...

The importance of women having enough folic acid in their bodies before and during pregnancy to prevent permanent and life-threatening birth defects, such as spina bifida and anencephaly, has been ...

Women who are obese before they become pregnant may be at an increased risk of having a baby with defects of the brain and spinal cord, especially if they tend to put on weight around the waist. But a ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...