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 genes ...

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy has been linked to birth defects, 1 yet the magnitude of risk remains uncertain. Investigators studying the 2013–2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia ...

New research highlights the significant role the surrounding environment of stem cells, known as the niche, might play in the brain size of babies with microcephaly. Mutations in certain genes have ...

Images from Brazil of babies with undersized heads, a condition called microcephaly, are unsettling, and the surge in cases raises many questions about what the future may hold for these children, ...

From the outside, babies born with microcephaly all have the telltale features: Doll-sized heads on human-sized bodies, their foreheads sloped precipitously away from their faces. But on the inside, ...

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 ...

An alarming rise in Brazil in the number of cases of babies born with smaller-than-normal heads — a condition known as microcephaly — has public health officials racing to determine if the cause is a ...

Microcephaly has come to prominence since the news reports of the Zika virus being linked to birth defects. The condition causes the head to be small in size and the brain to under-develop. But it is ...

Microcephaly is a condition in which a newborn baby has a much smaller head circumference than expected for the average infant at the same stage of development. Sometimes a child is born with no sign ...

Brazil's microcephaly epidemic continues to pose a mystery -- if Zika is the culprit, why are there no similar epidemics in other countries also hit hard by the virus? In Brazil, the microcephaly rate ...

Early ultrasounds may not pick up signs of microcephaly in pregnant women infected with Zika virus, a newly published paper suggests. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...

An alarming rise in Brazil in the number of cases of babies born with smaller-than-normal heads — a condition known as microcephaly — has public health officials racing to determine if the cause is a ...