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Kettleman City parents want inquiry into birth defects
Madrid :: Spain | 1 day ago
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Nationally, very few reports of elevated birth-defect rates are statistically out of line enough to be identified as clusters, experts say. Even such instances do qualify as a cluster, an investigation likely would find no clear underlying cause: Birth-defect...
Tags: Kettleman City, birth defects, Spain, Madrid, Kettleman City California, Kings County California, Cleft lip and palate, Patau syndrome, Pesticide, Congenital disorders, Genetic disorders, Syndromes
Battered city's youngest victims
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility No one knows why birth defects are increasing but doctors fear they are a result of war, writes Martin Chulov in Falluja. Z ainab Abdul Latif moves wearily between her three children, wiping their foreheads and propping them up in their wheelchairs....
Tags: Falluja General Hospital, Across Falluja, Falluja Handicapped Organisation, birth defects, Zainab Abdul Latif, Mariam, Iraq, neural tube, tube defects, United Kingdom, London, Anencephaly, Fallujah, Congenital disorders, Spina bifida, Holoprosencephaly, Health Medical Pharma
More birth defects seen with assisted reproduction
Ontario :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility A new study has found a higher rate of birth defects among babies conceived by assisted reproduction compared to babies conceived naturally. In the study, almost 3 percent of infants conceived with assisted reproduction were diagnosed with a major birth...
Tags: birth defects, assisted reproduction, major birth, babies conceived, conceived naturally, Ontario, Obstetrics, Cryobiology, Assisted reproductive technology, In vitro fertilisation, Artificial insemination, Fertility medicine, Reproduction, Pregnancy, Health Medical Pharma
Letters: Causes of Falluja's birth defects
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 6 days ago
Credibility You are to be congratulated for bringing to public notice the possible causes of birth defects and cancers among infants in Falluja ( Report , 14 November). You mention radiation poisoning, but not depleted uranium munitions.
Tags: birth defects, depleted uranium, Falluja, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City
Toxic munitions 'may be cause' of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah
Basra :: Iraq | 9 days ago
Credibility Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion – are exhibiting high rates of mortality and birth defects. In September this year, say campaigners,...
Tags: Fallujah General Hospital, birth defects, Iraqi, Iraq, Basra, Depleted uranium, Uranium, White phosphorus, Cities along the Silk Road, Fallujah, War Conflict, Neural tube defect, Iraqi insurgency, Developmental biology, Congenital disorders, Health Medical Pharma, Holoprosencephaly, Anencephaly, Spina bifida
Falluja's babies: The difficulties of pinning the blame
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 10 days ago
Credibility The US department of veterans affairs recently accepted that Vietnam war veterans may have developed B cell leukaemias, Parkinson's disease and ischemic heart disease as a result of exposure to a blend of herbicides known as Agent Orange, a defoliating...
Tags: Falluja, birth defects, Nigel Brown, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Environmental issues with war, Neural tube defect, Spina bifida, Agent Orange, Fallujah, Congenital disorders, Obstetrics, Developmental biology
Certain antibiotics may up birth defect risk
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility Some of the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy may increase the risk of several birth defects if a woman uses them early in pregnancy, a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows. Researchers...
Tags: birth defects
Cadaver Womb Gives Infertile Couples Hope
How desperate are you to have a baby? There are 7.3 million women in the US between 15 and 44 years of age that have the impaired ability to get pregnant, that’s roughly 11.8 % of the population. The number of married women ages 15-44 that are infertile...
Tags: orphaned children, Africa, chairity, donation, conceive, inabaility to conceive, infertility, adoption, surrogacy, uterus, womb, donated uterus, donated organ, donated organs, disability, health, health news, national news, world news, drought, birth defects, still birth, still born, adopting, transplant, in vitro fertilization, childbirth and parenthood, embryos, surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, West London, blood clots, medical insurance, preganncy, famine, sex
Seroxat to blame for baby's heart defects, American jury rules
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility A family has been awarded $2.5m (£1.6m) in damages after a jury in Philadelphia decided that the British-made antidepressant Seroxat was responsible for their three-year-old son's heart defects. GlaxoSmithKline , the British manufacturer of Seroxat,...
Tags: GlaxoSmithKline, heart defects, Paxil, Philadelphia, birth defects, Seroxat
Hamas says more babies born with birth defects since Cast Lead
Gaza :: Palestine | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Hamas Health Ministry on Saturday said that since the Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza last winter, a higher percentage of children have been born with birth defects, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported on Saturday. According to Dr....
Tags: cast lead, Hamas Health Ministry, Hamas Minister of Health, birth defects, babies born
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