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Birth Defects
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Prevention/Screening
- Coping
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
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- Genetics
- Research
- Directories
- Organizations
- Statistics
Overviews
- Overviews
- Birth Defects (Nemours Foundation)
- Birth Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Descriptions of Leading Categories of Birth Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Amniocentesis (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Ultrasound (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Folic Acid Frequently Asked Questions (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)
Also available in: Spanish - Maternal Blood Screening for Down Syndrome and Neural Tube Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Coping
- Coping
- Peer Contact for Parents of Children with Congenital Amputations (Amputee Coalition of America)
Also available in: Spanish - When Your Baby Has a Birth Defect (Nemours Foundation)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Achondroplasia (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Ambiguous Genitalia (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (Foundation Fighting Blindness)
- Cephalic Disorders Fact Sheet (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Cephalic Disorders Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Cervical Teratoma (Children's Hospital Boston)
- Chromosomal Abnormalities (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Clubfoot and Other Foot Deformities (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Congenital Abnormalities of the Upper Extremity (American Society for Surgery of the Hand)
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) (Children's Hospital Boston)
- Congenital Torticollis (Twisted Neck) (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Craniofacial Syndrome Descriptions (Children's Craniofacial Association)
- Craniosynostosis (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Crouzon Syndrome (Craniofacial Dysostosis) (Cleft Palate Foundation)
- FAQs about CdLS (Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation)
- Hearing Loss (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- Horseshoe Kidney (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Information about Pierre Robin Sequence/Complex (Cleft Palate Foundation)
- Intestinal Malrotation (Nemours Foundation)
- Klippel-Feil Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Late-Appearing Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- Mobius Syndrome (Congenital Facial Diplegia) (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (Bubble Boy Disease) (Nemours Foundation)
- Treacher Collins Syndrome (Cleft Palate Foundation)
- Undescended Testicles (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Waardenburg Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- What I Need to Know about Hirschsprung's Disease
(National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse) - What Is a Large (Giant) Congenital Nevus? (Nevus Outreach, Inc.)
- Williams Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Accutane and Other Retinoids (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Amniotic Fluid Abnormalities (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- Common Concerns and Exposures (Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction)
- Food-Borne Risks in Pregnancy (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Organization of Teratology Information Services Fact Sheets (Organization of Teratology Information Services)
- Pregnancy and the Drug Dilemma (Food and Drug Administration)
- Thalidomide: New Uses for a Notorious Drug (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- What Is a Neonatologist? (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- What You Can Do to Keep Germs from Harming You or Your Baby (National Center for Infectious Diseases) - Links to PDF
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: Genetic Conditions (National Library of Medicine)
- Common Forms of Inheritance (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Multifactorial Inheritance (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Research
- Research
- Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- Birth Defects Research (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)
- Congenital Causes of Venous Thrombosis--Classification System (American College of Physicians)
- Do Multivitamin Supplements Reduce the Risk for Diabetes-Associated Birth Defects? (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities) - Links to PDF
- Loratadine and Hypospadias: Data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Maternal Obesity and Risk for Birth Defects (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities) - Links to PDF
Directories
- Directories
- Find a Teratogen Information Service (Organization of Teratology Information Services)
- Laboratory Directory-GeneReviews (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)
- Qualified Centers (Children's Craniofacial Association)
- State Map Page (National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center)
- US Clinic Directory Search (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Children's Craniofacial Association
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Also available in: Spanish - National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Also available in: Spanish - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
- Organization of Teratology Information Services
- Save Babies Through Screening Foundation
Statistics
- Statistics
- FASTATS: Birth Defects (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Leading Categories of Birth Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)