Consulting experts can make contemporaneous observations of a defect and perform tests that may not be possible to replicate later. The expert can, in consultation with counsel, create the ...

Congenital heart disease refers to heart defects present at birth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1% of US infants, or about 40,000 children each year, are born ...

For pregnant women infected with Zika virus in the first trimester, the future is foreboding. Nearly 11 percent of U.S. women likely exposed to Zika in the early weeks of or just before pregnancy had ...

A study looking at the effects of a widely prescribed diabetes drug has linked the medication to an increased risk of birth defects. The Danish study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found ...

Washoe County, Nevada, U.S., experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 - April 2008. Gastroschisis is a birth defect that occurs early in ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

An ostium primum atrial septal defect (ASD) occurs when then atrial septum near the atrioventricular valves has a communication between the two atrium causing a left to right shunt. This rarely ...

In addition to surface and subsurface defects, residual stress represents a concern. Over time, these stress points, ...