NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to a study presented this past Friday at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Chicago. About 1 in 5000 babies born in the U.S. each year suffers from gastroschisis, in which part ...

It was the day the families of this rural farm community had long awaited. After nearly two years of pleading for someone to listen to their concerns about an abnormally high number of birth defects, families bonded by the suffering of their children got one of the biggest ears in the West on Wednesday. Jared Blumenfeld, newly appointed regional director ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young children whose mothers took folic acid supplements in late pregnancy may have an increased risk of developing asthma, a new study hints. The findings, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, appear to be the first to link mothers' use of folic acid in pregnancy to their children's later asthma risk. Researchers emphasize that ...