All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were “furious” that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle ...

A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

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 ...

All right, folks, I'm way overdue on checking back in with this. I first wrote about anencephaly more than a year ago, when the state Health Department issued a news release on the unusually high ...

GRAND FORKS — May is anencephaly awareness month. It's a fatal birth defect and it hits close to home for a UND football coach. Offensive coordinator Isaac Fruechte brings energy and NFL experience to ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — May is anencephaly awareness month. It's a fatal birth defect and it hits close to home for a Caledonia native who is a University of North Dakota football coach, and his family.

Nearly a decade ago, an anencephaly cluster in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties made headlines. Anencephaly is a fatal congenital malformation where major parts of the brain and skull fail to form ...

The UK's new legal requirement for folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour does not go far enough and a bolder policy would prevent hundreds more birth defects each year, say researchers ...