A groundbreaking genetic study has uncovered the underlying cellular missteps responsible for congenital heart defects, ...

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January 19, 2007 — Birth defects are leading causes of pediatric hospitalizations and medical expenditures, and account for about 20% of total infant deaths, according to findings from a study ...

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This Cochrane review examined 19 cohort and cross-sectional studies of low to moderate quality with 436,758 asymptomatic term or late preterm newborns who received screening in a newborn nursery ...

One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear. Human geneticists at the University Medicine Oldenburg (Germany) have now ...

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A newly discovered communication system in the microscopic “antennae” of cells may help explain how some congenital heart defects develop. When genetic mutations disrupt this system, the effects may ...

Pregnant women with elevated blood-sugar levels are more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects, even if their blood sugar is below the cutoff for diabetes, according to a new study from ...

The research has come from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, in the U.S. the focus is on how cellular stress affected congenital defects of the heart, plus other organs like the kidneys. A ...