Now that Zika virus has begun spreading in the continental United States for the first time, there's growing concern about the potential impact on pregnant women and unborn babies. The CDC issued a ...

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, ...

Measuring head circumference (also known as occipito-frontal circumference) is a significant part of the proper evaluation of a child’s growth and development, as it represents a direct indication of ...

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, ...

The Zika virus epidemic that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other countries caused an unprecedented flood of ...

Microcephaly is a rare neurological condition. In comparison with children the same age, a child with microcephaly has a smaller head and, on occasion, a smaller brain. Abnormal brain development ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "She will not walk," a doctor told Ana Carolina Caceres' mother on the day she was born. "She will not talk and, over time, she will ...

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 ...

In many ways, these babies behave like typical newborns, despite their extremely small heads. They suckle, they cry, they react to stimuli. Their mothers shouldn't be fooled, however. They behave like ...

Scott and Gwen Hartley's daughters have a neurological condition. — -- From the very beginning, Scott and Gwen Hartley from Kansas knew there was something very different about their daughter, ...

Microcephaly is a congenital condition in which the newborn baby’s head is abnormally small head for his or her age or stage of development. Although microcephaly does not always have an impact beyond ...

Doctors believe an increased number of microcephaly cases in Brazil is due to the use of a Monsanto-manufactured pesticide. Multiple credible public health experts are investigating a concurrent ...