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Rare birth defect only treated at a few hospitals across the country

AURORA, Colo. -- For a two-and-a-half-month-old baby, Huntleigh has gone through a lot. She was born with her organs outside her body due to a rare birth defect called Omphalocele. "Omphalocele is a ...
Business Day

Doctors repair birth defect before birth in breakthrough womb surgery

A team of doctors has successfully repaired a serious birth defect in an unborn baby while he was still inside ...
Arizona Daily Star

U.S. families pay huge toll for birth-defect hospital care

ATLANTA — Birth defects lead to more than $2.5 billion a year in hospital costs alone, according to the first national studies to estimate their financial burden on U.S. families. The reports are the ...
Medical Xpress

Early access to a cardiac surgical hospital linked to shorter hospitalization for newborns with heart defects

Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in the United States. For newborns with the most severe defects—those needing lifesaving intervention—later transfer to a cardiac surgical ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Gastroschisis birth defect is on the rise in the US: 5 things to know

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 ...