Gwen and Scott Hartley were already parents to their 2-year-old son Cal when they welcomed daughter Claire Elise in 2001. Gwen had a normal pregnancy with Claire, and a sonogram at 19 weeks showed her ...

NIH-funded study finds higher risks for children of women who took efavirenz during pregnancy as a part of HIV therapy. Kids born to women on HIV therapy containing efavirenz were 2 to 2.5 times more ...

GUARENAS, Venezuela – Deep inside a hilly Venezuelan slum, Ericka Torres rocks her three-month-old son Jesus to soothe his near-constant crying. Jesus was diagnosed with microcephaly, a birth defect ...

I’m the mom of a microcephalic kid. I am also a news junkie. That’s been a tough combination lately. I adore Edmund, my kid with microcephaly. I shouldn’t need to say that. In general, moms loving ...

Before being linked to the Zika virus, the neurological condition was rarely discussed For Amy Ottaway, watching her son Dylan take his first steps just days short of his second birthday was “the most ...

The CMV virus causes microcephaly in babies, and it’s much more widespread than Zika The potential link between the Zika virus and brain malformations in babies is terrifying pregnant women around the ...

We have heard many reports in the past year about the spread of the Zika virus and the extreme brain damage it can cause to unborn children, but it can be difficult to understand what that means for ...

Mice that were infected with Zika virus during pregnancy and developed microcephaly displayed less activity of Ndel1, an enzyme that plays a key role in neuron proliferation, differentiation and ...

In 2020, "the virus" has come to mean one thing: SARS-CoV-2. But just a few years ago, Zika had the world's attention, as one news report after another described children with microcephaly born to ...