A newborn has been diagnosed with a genetic disease so rare that she's only the sixth person diagnosed in Ohio, ever. Just weeks after the first-time parents brought her home, the disease was ...

For decades, standard clinical practice has called for examining the cardiovascular system as part of the routine newborn examination. Despite this practice, however, one in three infants with a ...

Cerebral palsy is a common disorder caused by a disturbance to the fetal or newborn brain. The injury usually occurs before birth or shortly thereafter, but signs of cerebral palsy may not be visible ...

In mammals, the declination of hair follicles suggests an asymmetrically aligned tension in the skin during development. We hypothesized that skin, as an elastic body, would exhibit retraction in ...

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing for fetal trisomy is highly effective among high-risk women. However, there have been few direct, well-powered studies comparing cfDNA testing with standard screening ...