Babies exposed to the Zika virus as fetuses are more than 50 times more likely to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains — a condition called microcephaly — as other babies, ...

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, ...

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 ...

As Zika virus infections continue to spread, with cases reported in parts of Florida and southeast Asia, most people are familiar with the virus’s most damaging effects: on the developing fetus during ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by ...

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, ...

A baby in Texas was born with Zika-linked microcephly, a condition in which babies have abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development. The baby was born in Harris County, where Houston is ...

The woman was visiting the U.S. when she gave birth, officials said. — -- A woman visiting the U.S. has given birth to a baby with microcephaly after contracting Zika elsewhere, officials said.

When Daryle Koltay was born, his mother, Lisa, wasn’t able to celebrate her new baby. Instead she panicked. Daryle’s head had a circumference of only 12 inches, about 2 inches below average. Lisa and ...

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 ...

A first-of-its-kind study is strengthening the case that Zika is the culprit behind Brazil’s mysterious surge in babies born with microcephaly. Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the ...

A new report looking at brain imaging of infants and fetuses with Zika infections reveals what can happen when a fetus gets the virus. In the study, published in the journal Radiology, the researchers ...