WSVN 7News

Mother gives birth to baby with fatal birth defect to donate organs

A Tampa couple is grieving the loss of their daughter who was born with a rare but fatal birth defect.Catherine Mornhineway<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...
Staten Island Advance

Music festival fundraiser June 7 will help those with rare birth defect

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Valerie Pepe will host the annual AMC Music Festival Saturday, June 7 at Killmeyer’s Old Baveria Inn at 6 p.m. The event raises funds for families affected by Arthrogryposis ...
NBC Connecticut

Brazil Revises Birth Defect Count in Zika Investigation

Brazil’s Health Ministry reported fewer confirmed cases of a rare brain defect that may be tied to the Zika virus, NBC News reported. In new figures released Wednesday, only 270 of 4,180 suspected ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

State says no cause found for birth defect in Yakima County

After the troubling discovery earlier this year that Yakima County had logged an unexpectedly high number of fatal birth defects in 2012, the state Department of Health said Tuesday that its ...
WTSP

Study suggests bad corn caused birth defects in the Rio Grande Valley

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- A new study finds that contaminated corn may have caused an increase in babies born with rare birth defects in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.Scientists have been searching ...