The mosquito-borne Zika virus is causing international concern as a result of its link to microcephaly, a rare birth defect in which babies are born with unusually small heads and incomplete ...

Cindy DuCharme and her husband, Jim, of St. Paul, Minnesota, have three daughters, the oldest and youngest of whom have microcephaly. They were advised to abort when DuCharme was 16 weeks pregnant ...

151; -- At the center of the Zika virus crisis is the rise of a dangerous condition called microcephaly. The rare birth defect has affected thousands of infants in Brazil, leading officials to ...

A fetus infected with the Zika virus during the first three months of pregnancy has about a 1% to 13% risk of developing microcephaly, an abnormally small head usually caused by incomplete brain ...

How Does a Baby Get Microcephaly? Your doctor may not be able to tell you why this happened to your baby. In most cases, the exact cause is unknown. It can be brought on by: A problem with your ...

Zika Virus Causes Damage to Infants Beyond Microcephaly, Study Finds Brain Damage in Zika Babies Is Far Worse Than Doctors Expected Microcephaly, a neurological condition in which babies are born ...

Christine Grounds still recalls the moment nine years ago when a neurologist told her that her newborn son, Nicholas, had microcephaly. His head was too small. His brain had not developed properly.

Six-year-old Anika Aramburu darts in and out of the rooms of her small home. In just minutes her attention flits from a toy train to a colorful plastic matryoshka nesting doll to a wooden puzzle ...

The World Health Organization said in late March that there was “strong scientific consensus” that the Zika virus caused microcephaly, in which infants are born with unusually small heads and ...

But unlike most of his peers, Edmund has microcephaly, the result of a genetic disorder his mom Elizabeth Picciuto didn't know about while pregnant. "When he first came home my initial thought was ...

It is called microcephaly and it is the medical term for a small head. According to a report in the journal Nature, mutations in the gene wdr62 are a cause of microcephaly. Now here is the problem ...

Six-year-old Anika Aramburu darts in and out of the rooms of her small home. In just minutes her attention flits from a toy train to a colorful plastic matryoshka nesting doll to a wooden puzzle ...