A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

Outreach workers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are drawing on years of community connections in south central Washington state to raise awareness about a devastating cluster of ...

Anencephaly is a birth defect in which the brain and bones of the skull don’t form completely while the baby is in the womb. As a result, the baby’s brain, particularly the cerebral cortex, develops ...

A Florida woman, Catherine Mornhineway, chose to carry her baby girl, Haven, to term despite a diagnosis of anencephaly, a ...

Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...