Birth Defects

Latest News
• Mice Shed Light on Girls' Mental Retardation (03/13/2001, Reuters)
• Male Genital Defect More Common with Older Moms (03/07/2001, Reuters)
• Offspring of Men with Birth Defects Twice as Likely to Have Defects, Too (02/14/2001, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

From the National Institutes of Health
• Meeting the Challenges of Craniofacial-Oral-Dental Birth Defects (National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research)
• Offspring of Men with Birth Defects Twice as Likely to Have Defects, Too (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

General/Overviews

• Birth Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Abnormalities (National Institutes of Health)

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Amniocentesis (MedicineNet, Inc.)
• Prenatal Diagnosis: Amniocentesis and CVS (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Prenatal Screening Tests: Maternal Serum Alpha Fetoprotein Test and Triple Test (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

Prevention/Screening

• Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Folic Acid Fact Sheet (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Maternal Blood Screening (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)

Research

• Division of Birth Defects, Child Development and Disability and Health News (National Center for Environmental Health)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Accutane and Other Retinoids (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Aicardi Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Childhood Illnesses in Pregnancy: Chickenpox and Fifth Disease (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Cloacal Exstrophy (Digital Urology Journal)
• Congenital Abnormalities of the Upper Extremity (American Society for Surgery of the Hand)
• Craniosynostosis (American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
• Genetic Screening for Birth Defects (American Society for Reproductive Medicine) - links to PDF file
• Hirschsprung's Disease (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Hypospadias (Digital Urology Journal)
• Incontinentia Pigmenti (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Joubert Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Klippel-Feil Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Mobius Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Waardenburg Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
• Zellweger Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• Glossary of Terms (National Center for Environmental Health)

Organizations

• American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA) and Cleft Palate Foundation (CPF) (American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Cleft Palate Foundation)
• Cornelia de Lange Syndrome(CdLS)Foundation, Inc. (Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) Foundation)
• Division of Birth Defects, Child Development and Disabilities and Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc. (Hydrocephalus Foundation, Inc.)
• March of Dimes (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• National Center for Environmental Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
• Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation

Statistics

• Birth Defects: 1997 Plastic Surgery Procedural Statistics (American Society of Plastic Surgeons)
• Congenital Syphilis: United States, 1998 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• FASTATS: Birth Defects (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Leading Categories of Birth Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)

Children

• Anorchidism (Pediatric Endocrinology Nurses Society)
• Genital Problems in Infants: Self-Care Flowcharts (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Undescended Testicles (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

Espaņol/Spanish

• Talidomida (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)