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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Dawson Grant was born with OEIS Syndrome, a very rare genetic malformation which includes several birth defects. One of the defects was an omphalocele, where the abdominal contents protrude into a ...

More shocking than the surprise pregnancy was the revelation that the girl had no vaginal opening, a rare birth defect known as distal vaginal atresia. Distal vaginal atresia is characterized by ...

Irelynne suffers from a rare respiratory birth defect called a Laryngotracheal cleft. “You expect to go through the labor, go through delivery, and then go straight home, but we came straight to ...