According to the CDC, CMV is the leading infectious cause of birth defects in the United States and can have lifelong ...

A woman's use of decongestant medications in the first trimester of pregnancy may raise her child's risk of certain rare birth defects, according to a small study.

US medical team had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure to treat people with a rare birth defect.

A leading cause of birth defects is a virus that many expectant parents have never heard about. That may change soon thanks to the advocacy of parents whose children suffered birth defects due to ...

The boy and his new puppy were both born with a condition that meant their right ears didn’t form properly and remain small.

I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is a cleft lip or ...

Children with microtia - born without a fully-developed ear - are getting new help from a procedure by a Torrance surgeon that uses a state-of-the-art prosthetic.

A young boy's wish to just get through a day without strange stares and ridicule is about to come true. We were there for his post-op reveal after receiving a new form of ear reconstruction.

Key takeaways: Offspring of women with cancer had higher risk for birth defects compared with offspring of women without cancer. Defect risks included eye or ear, heart and circulatory ...

Birth defects, though they are a less common cause, can also result in abnormalities or missing parts of the ear that are necessary for transmitting sound.

Four years ago this month, every beat of newborn Justice Altidor’s heart came with labored breathing. Even after surgeons at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta cut blood vessels from her heart ...