Protein Inhibitor Points to Potential Medical Treatments for Skull and Skin ... 
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (May 15, 2012) ? Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found new clues in the pathogenesis of skull and skin birth defects associated with a rare genetic disorder, Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome (BSS).

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Birth-Defect Risk Seen in Assisted Conception 
New York Times
A large Australian study has found a small but significant increase in the risk for birth defects in babies conceived with assisted reproductive technologies. Researchers looked at records from 302811 pregnancies, including stillbirths and terminations ...
Increasing deformity on children linked to fertility treatment ?Study Business Hallmark
ICSI Has a Higher Risk of Birth Defects As Compared To IVF French Tribune

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Risk of birth defects higher for ICSI compared with IVF 
ModernMedicine
In a study identifying the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology, Australian researchers have reported a significantly higher risk of birth defects involving intracytoplasmic sperm injection ...
MPs demand inquiry into risks of most popular IVF after it has been linked ... Daily Mail
Does all assisted reproduction lead to birth defects? The Conversation
Reproductive Techniques Assisted With Risk of Birth-Defects French Tribune

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Birth defect risk rises with some fertility treatments 
msnbc.com
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived ...
Some fertility treatments linked to higher risk of birth defects Los Angeles Times
Fertility Methods Raise Risk of Birth Defects ABC News

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Birth defects linked to childhood cancer, study finds 
Fox News
A new study suggests children born with a range of birth defects are at an increased risk of developing certain childhood cancers, especially during their first year of life. The cancers, however, are generally rare and the study cannot say one ...
Birth defects linked to childhood cancer: study Reuters
Birth defects: When a 37 percent jump doesn't matter The Hook
Australian researchers study link between fertility treatments and birth defects InjuryBoard.com
BioEdge 
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Birth Defect Rates Vary Depending on Fertility Treatment 
U.S. News & World Report
By Steven Reinberg SATURDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Birth defects are more common after certain infertility treatments, but whether the cause is the assisted reproduction techniques themselves or the underlying biology preventing conception isn't ...
Risk of major birth defects in fertility babies almost double, research finds Fox News
Common fertility treatments raise birth defect risk, study finds CBS News
Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk KEPR 19
Medical Xpress  -Health.com 
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Healthy baby aborted after erroneous reports of birth defects in Vietnam 
Lifesite
The mother, Nguyen Thi Thu T., had undergone two ultrasounds that falsely reported birth defects ? one in her native Chu Se District and another in Ho Chi Minh City. She chose to abort the baby in the seventh month of her pregnancy.

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Lynn Seithel encourages Mothers of Children with Birth Defects to Seek ... 
WebWire (press release)
Despite the fact that the pharmaceutical companies are aware of the often serious, permanent, life threatening and/or life altering birth defects such as heart defects such as ventricular septal defects (VSD), atrial septal defects (ASD), ...

 

Atrazine, birth defects story lacks science, sources and so much more. 
Environmental Health News (blog)
The lack of scientific information in a Daily Mail article undermines the credibility of a possible link between a cluster of birth defects and the widely used herbicide atrazine. Readers will find it hard to understand the issue based on the ...

 

The case for reviving the birth-defects database 
Vancouver Sun
This database was started in 1952 to determine how many children there were with congenital anomalies (birth defects), genetic disorders and functional disabilities in the province. It was known as a Crippled Children's Registry but had many name ...

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