Birth Defects
News about Birth Defects, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
ARTICLES ABOUT BIRTH DEFECTS
A Place to Be Heard
My clinic rooms, clean and nondescript as they are, sometimes provide a safe house for laying bare the wrenching decisions that tug on my patients.
December 1, 2016, Thursday
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Chemotherapy
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Birth Defects
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Doctors
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Pregnancy and Childbirth
Microcephaly Found in Babies of Zika-Infected Mothers Months After Birth
A study published Tuesday found that some babies who did not have unusually small heads when they were born still presented microcephaly months later.
November 22, 2016, Tuesday
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Microcephaly
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Birth Defects
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Brazil
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Harvard Medical School
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Zika Looms in Asia, Tempered by a Fuller View of Its Dangers
The Zika scare in Latin America has prompted a recent surge in awareness and monitoring of the virus in Asia.
November 22, 2016, Tuesday
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Microcephaly
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Mosquitoes
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Birth Defects
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Far East, South and Southeast Asia and Pacific Areas
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome
CMV Is a Greater Threat to Infants Than Zika, but Far Less Often Discussed
Every year in the U.S., 20,000 to 40,000 infants are born with cytomegalovirus. Yet most doctors don’t talk with pregnant women about how to prevent it.
October 24, 2016, Monday
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Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Birth Defects
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Deafness
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Microcephaly
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Zika Virus
One Family’s Struggle With Microcephaly, the Birth Defect Now Linked to Zika
Watching the unfolding epidemic and concerned that many people did not grasp what it meant to raise a child with the condition, a Manhattan couple offered to share their experience.
October 17, 2016, Monday
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Microcephaly
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Birth Defects
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Special Education
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Manhattan (NYC)
C.D.C. Advises Against Travel to Zika-Affected Countries in Southeast Asia
The warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited 11 countries and was not as urgent as those issued earlier this year regarding Latin America and the Caribbean.
September 30, 2016, Friday
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Far East, South and Southeast Asia and Pacific Areas
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Women and Girls
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Birth Defects
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Pregnancy and Childbirth
Doctors Brace for Zika Babies
How do doctors prepare for an evolving clinical challenge that is still poorly understood?
September 27, 2016, Tuesday
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Microcephaly
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Children and Childhood
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Birth Defects
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Epidemics
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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Puerto Rico
Pregnant Women Anxious as Florida’s Zika Test Results Take Weeks
The state offers free tests to pregnant women, but a lack of resources has contributed to a backlog that has left hundreds waiting a long time.
September 13, 2016, Tuesday
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Florida
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Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Scott, Richard L
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Abortion
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Birth Defects
Brain Scans of Brazilian Babies Show Array of Zika Effects
The images show that the virus can inflict serious damage to many different parts of the fetal brain beyond microcephaly, the condition of unusually small heads.
August 24, 2016, Wednesday
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Brain
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Birth Defects
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Microcephaly
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Radiology (Journal)
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Levine, Deborah (1962- )
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Brazil
Antipsychotics During Pregnancy Not Tied to Birth Defects
Drugs used to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses were not linked to an increase in the risk for birth defects.
August 18, 2016, Thursday
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