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 ...

In scary news for future moms who take antidepressants: Popping certain ones right before getting pregnant and while you're carrying could increase your baby's risk of being born with birth defects in ...

Up to 53 million American women of childbearing age have at least one risk factor that increases the odds of severe birth defects. A CDC study including survey responses from more than 5,300 women as ...

Two-thirds of women in their child-bearing years have an increased risk for birth defects due to a lifestyle factor they can change, a new study says. These risk factors -- low levels of vitamin B9 ...