A passing comment about the size of a baby’s head led to the infant being diagnosed with an extremely rare birth defect.

Surgeons have used a new technique to save the life of a toddler who was born with an extremely rare birth defect in what is ...

It had been this way all year. I felt a lack of control and the absence of consent. 15 years old but treated as though I were five. My body was going through teenage changes and it had been poked ...

After their first daughter was born with microcephaly, Gwen Hartley and her husband were told her condition was an anomaly. Then, an ultrasound revealed their third child had the birth defect, too.

"They felt her condition had improved despite the observations." Iris was born with Down syndrome and an atrio-ventricular septal defect, which was discovered when her mother Hannah was 36 weeks ...