One year after Brazil’s Zika outbreak began a surge in microcephaly — a rare neurological birth defect that causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads — infants affected by Zika are ...

Medscape: What is happening in babies with so-called shrinking brains and collapsing skulls? Dr Dobyns: About half of these babies have a condition called fetal brain disruption sequence. Their heads ...

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, ...

Of the many mysteries that remain about the Zika virus and its attack on the Americas, perhaps the most puzzling one relates to the bizarre distribution of babies born with Zika-induced microcephaly.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- After news that a baby was born in Harris County with Microcephaly associated with the Zika Virus, a Houston-area mother is shedding light on what it's like living with the defect.

When an outbreak strikes, the Epidemic Intelligence Service is the cavalry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ships this branch to the front lines, where they investigate the causes and ...

What is microcephaly and what causes it? The term refers to a rare neurological condition in which children have unusually small heads. In many cases it also means a baby's brain is smaller and may ...

Microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, was a rare, fairly unknown disorder before the Zika outbreak drew attention to it. While the virus hasn’t been confirmed ...

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Fetal head growth abnormalities have been identified in a subset of HLHS fetuses, but it is unclear ...

Since the emergence of the outbreak of Zika virus infection in the Americas, the link between the virus and two neurological diseases, microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) has not been ...

Scientists identify a rare new genetic form of neonatal diabetes caused by TMEM167A mutations, affecting insulin production, ...

Medscape: What can you tell us about infants now being identified with probable congenital Zika infection who do not exhibit microcephaly at birth? In June, a study in the Lancet [10] reported that ...