Woman gave birth to child with microcephaly in New Jersey. — -- An infant born in New Jersey yesterday is the second known baby born in the U.S. suspected of having Zika-related microcephaly The ...

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, ...

It’s a Sunday in the Brazilian city of Recife, but a team of infectious disease, pediatric and neurology experts are working overtime, huddled in a back room of the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital. They are ...

Microcephaly, a medical condition characterized by an abnormally small head in affected individuals, often has other complications. This is not always the case as the only sign some children have is a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RECIFE, Brazil—When they first started seeing newborns with shrunken skulls last August, Dr. Vanessa van der Linden Mota and her mother, Dr. Ana van der Linden, didn’t realize they were looking at a ...

"These babies do not catch up as they grow," says Dr. Antonio Augusto Moura da Silva of the Federal University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, Brazil. He's describing the findings from a study of 48 babies ...