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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A report from the New England Journal of Medicine has confirmed that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other birth defects. The Zika virus has been confirmed as a cause of microcephaly and ...

Your doctor can measure your baby’s growth in several ways. For example, your doctor will check your baby’s height or length and their weight to learn if they’re growing normally. Another measure of ...

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 ...

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 ...