According to the CDC, every 4.5 minutes a baby is born with a birth defect. While it can often be scary for a new parent to ...

A review of medical literature revealed a need for more well-designed research on the association between fetal opioid exposure and birth defects. For the systematic review — published in the journal ...

These risk factors -- low levels of vitamin B9 (folate), unmanaged diabetes or exposure to tobacco smoke -- increase the odds of a serious birth defect in any child they might have, researchers said.