Vein of galen malformation (VOGM) is a rare condition which occurs in pregnancy, affecting about one in a million children.

Conor O’Rourke, who is now three, was part of a rare subgroup of patients which made his condition essentially untreatable.

A baby boy has been successfully treated for a one-in-a-million brain condition using a pioneering surgical technique, after ...

Health Rare Birth Defect Leaves Boy With Giant Red Balloon-Like Sac on His Back About one in every 1,000 people is born with spina bifida, but few develop this specific form of the condition.

The anomaly, considered extremely rare, posed an immediate risk of kidney failure and threatened the infant’s life.

Information from 14 states displayed an increase in incidence of gastrochisis from 3.6 per 10,000 births from 1995 to 2005, to 4.9 per 10,000 births from 2006 to 2012.

NEW YORK -- U.S. health officials say there's no longer any doubt that the Zika virus causes severe birth defects. Experts had been cautious about making a definitive link despite a surge of ...

Emma was born with omphalocele, a rare birth defect of the abdominal wall in which a baby's organs "stick outside of the belly through the belly button," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Although these birth defects occurred 2 to 3.5 times more frequently among infants of women taking paroxetine or fluoxetine early in pregnancy, the absolute risk is low, the researchers note.