The most recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveals cases of gastroschisis, a serious birth defect of the abdominal wall, have more than doubled over the past 18 years in the U.S. Babies ...

Introduction Gastroschisis mortality is disproportionately high in Africa due in part to delayed presentation and limited ...

What if your baby was born with some of its internal organs outside the body? You may not have heard of gastroschisis before, and therefore think it’s a rare condition. But rates of this birth defect ...

(CNN) --A potentially deadly birth defect in which babies are born with exposed intestines is on the rise, and researchers are concerned that it might be tied to the opioid epidemic. The birth defect, ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Women who reported having both a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and urinary tract infection (UTI) just before or during early pregnancy were four times more likely to have babies ...

Three month old Amy Joy Jones was diagnosed with Gastroschisis, a birth defect in which an infant's intestines stick out of the body through a defect on one side of the umbilical cord. Three month old ...