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Skylar's Legacy: Couple Facing Infant's Certain Death Makes Agonizing Decisionher forever." Skylar was born with anencephaly , a birth defect that causes a baby found out in advance about Skylar's anencephaly but wanted to see their baby and, after everything: They found out their baby had anencephaly . A few days later, the diagnosis was
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Abortion Rights Group to Launch TV Ad Fighting Stupak Restrictions
and says: "Doc, I'm 11 weeks pregnant – my baby has anencephaly , which means parts of her skull and brain are literally an abortion? The doctor says: "No it does not."" " Anencephaly is fatal." "Don't let Congress ban abortion coverage
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CDC Study Links 2 Antibiotics to Birth Defects
urinary tract and other infections. Women whose children had anencephaly , a fatal malformation of the skull and brain, were three defects, including cleft palate, heart or limb defects and anencephaly . They compared the women's rates of antibiotic usage
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Low Choline Level in Pregnancy Tied to Birth Defects
two types of neural tube birth defects -- anencephaly and spina bifida. Anencephaly is a lethal condition in which the brain and from 80 women who gave birth to children with anencephaly and spina bifida to pregnancy blood samples
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Enzyme Deficiency Linked to Neural Tube Defect in Mice
greater chance of having a child with spina bifida, a common neural tube defect in humans that can lead to paralysis, spine abnormalities included spina bifida and exencephaly, which is similar to anencephaly , a fatal condition in infants in which great sections of
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Folic Acid Reduces Infant Heart Defects
reduce neural tube birth defects, such as spina bifida or anencephaly . Now it seems folic acid may also prevent heart defects By 2004, the number of infants born with spina bifida or anencephaly had dropped 26 percent, according to the U.S. Centers
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Obese Moms More Likely to Have Babies With Birth Defects
spina bifida, heart defects, cleft lip and palate, and anencephaly (a defect in brain development). Birth defects are a review. Together, the pooled risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect was 87 percent higher for obese mothers compared to normal
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Health Tip: Taking Folic Acid
Breast-feeding women need 500 micrograms daily. Women who have had a baby with certain birth defects -- such as spina bifida or anencephaly -- and who want to have another baby should check with their doctor. These women may need as much as 4,000 micrograms
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Health Highlights: Oct. 25, 2007
every day, they're 80 percent less likely to have infants with serious neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly . The survey's finding that Hispanic women and those with lower levels of education are of particular concern, since Hispanic
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Maternal Obesity Heightens Risk of Birth Defects
and the risk for certain birth defects, particularly anencephaly -- a defect in the closure of the neural tube, which forms around the brain and spinal cord). This is the most common neural tube defect in the United States and affects up to 2,000 of the more
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Mom's Antidepressant Use Poses Little Danger to Baby
sertraline (Zoloft), Paxil and citalopram (Celexa). There were some associations between maternal SSRI use and anencephaly (a brain defect), craniosynostosis and omphalocele, but, again, the absolute risk was very small. These defects had
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Health Tip: Amniocentesis Can Identify Birth Defects
signs of the following birth defects: Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders. Spina bifida, anencephaly (partial brain formation ), and other structural birth defects. Infection. Rh incompatibility. Lung immaturity.
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Study: Women Need Extra Folic Acid
how the vitamin works. What Are Neural Tube Defects? The most common types of neural tube defects are spina bifida and anencephaly , which occur when the spinal column fails to close in the growing fetus. Anencephalic fetuses usually do not develop a
