Anencephaly occurs when an infant is born without parts of their brain and skull. It is a severe congenital anomaly, which means that a baby develops anencephaly in the womb. Anencephaly is a ...

Anencephaly is a birth defect in which the brain and bones of the skull don’t form completely while the baby is in the womb. As a result, the baby’s brain, particularly the cerebral cortex, develops ...

At every stage of fetus development in a pregnancy, care needs to be taken to monitor the growth of the baby. The neural tube plays an important role in the development of the fetus. As the fetus ...

Emersyn Rogers was diagnosed with anencephaly when mom was 20 weeks pregnant. — -- A couple carrying their terminally ill child to term is hoping to donate her organs and help keep other parents ...

All right, folks, I'm way overdue on checking back in with this. I first wrote about anencephaly more than a year ago, when the state Health Department issued a news release on the unusually high ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...

Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...

Anencephaly, sometimes referred to as 'open skull', is a rare birth defect. It causes parts of a foetus' brain, scalp and skull to not form completely. The defect occurs during the third and fourth ...