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The Baby Doe Rules represent the first attempt by the US government to directly intervene in treatment options for neonates born with congenital…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionCongenital DisordersThe US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' 1984 decision United States v. University Hospital, State University Hospital of New York at Stony Brook set a…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionCongenital DisordersThe New York Court of Appeals' 1983 case Weber v. Stony Brook set an important precedent upholding the right of parents to make medical decisions for…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesReproductionCongenital DisordersGovernmentThe case of Smith v. Cote (1986) answered two important questions concerning law and childbirth: does the State of New Hampshire recognize a cause of…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesCongenital DisordersAbortionIn 1881 British opthalmologist Warren Tay made an unusual observation. He reported a cherry-red spot on the retina of a one-year-old patient, a…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseCongenital DisordersHeredityVACTERL association is a term applied to a specific group of abnormalities involving structures derived from the mesoderm. Although the defects of…
VATER syndromeVACTERL associationCongenital DisordersIn the US, one in 1000 births is affected by neural tube defects (NTD). A neural tube defect is a birth defect involving the malformation of body…
Neural Tube DefectsReproductionCongenital DisordersHuman DevelopmentPrenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure can have dramatic effects on the development of the central nervous system (CNS), including morphological…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionCongenital DisordersFetusPrenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical and neurological developmental abnormalities that vary depending on the…
fetal alcohol syndromeCongenital DisordersFetusIn 1914 Albert Niemann, a German pediatrician who primarily studied infant metabolism, published a description of an Ashkenazi Jewish infant with…
Niemann-Pick DiseasesHuman DevelopmentCongenital Disorders