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    Health

    ‘A Chance to Live’: How 2 Families Faced a Catastrophic Birth Defect

    Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.

    By Gina Kolata and Kim Raff

    PRINT EDITIONA Devastating Diagnosis, and Agonizing Choices|April 1, 2024, Page A1
    Ashlee Wiseman with her daughter, Lennie Cardwell-Risenmay, who was born with trisomy 18, at home in Midvale, Utah.
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    Live

    Birth Defects Tied to Higher Cancer Risk

    Major birth defects are associated with an increased risk for cancer in childhood. New research suggests the risk persists into adulthood.

    By Nicholas Bakalar

    PRINT EDITIONCancer; Birth Defects and a Higher Risk|December 15, 2020, Page D6
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    Family

    Macrolide Antibiotics Early in Pregnancy Tied to Birth Defects

    Taking antibiotics like erythromycin, clarithromycin or azithromycin early in the course of pregnancy may increase the risk of birth defects.

    By Nicholas Bakalar

    PRINT EDITIONPregnancy: Antibiotics and Birth Defects|February 25, 2020, Page D6
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    Americas

    Gold’s Deadly Truth: Much Is Mined With Mercury

    Ten years after an international treaty to ban mercury, the toxic metal continues to poison. The reason might have to do with your wedding ring.

    By Fabian Federl, Jack Nicas and Ian Cheibub

    PRINT EDITIONMaking the Planet Glisten With Gold, While Poisoning It in the Process|September 24, 2023, Page A1
    Gold miners working at the small mine owned by Jeovane de Jesus Aguiar in Suriname. The mine workers use mercury to help extract gold from the mud.

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    Opinion

    A Forgotten Chapter of Abortion History Repeats Itself

    More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a drug that caused severe birth defects.

    By Linda Greenhouse

    Sherri Chessen with one of her children.
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    Book Review

    Searching for the Real ‘Anna O.’

    As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud’s most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.

    By Susannah Cahalan

    The woman behind one of Freud’s most influential case studies, writes Gabriel Brownstein, was not the straightforward success story of legend.
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    Business

    This Drug May Cause Birth Defects. Japan’s Pushing It for Coronavirus.

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging the world to fight the epidemic using a Japanese-made medication, though there is little evidence that it works.

    By Ben Dooley

    PRINT EDITIONIt May Cause Birth Defects and It May Not Work, but Japan Extols It|May 6, 2020, Page A9
    A number of countries, including the United States, have planned or started trials of Avigan, whose generic name is favipiravir.
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    Africa

    ‘Death on the Floor or Death in the Streets’: Childbirth Amid War in Sudan

    War in the northeast African nation has forced pregnant women to drive “through hell” to reach the dwindling number of hospitals and clinics, or turn to overworked midwives to give birth at home.

    By Cora Engelbrecht and Abdi Latif Dahir

    PRINT EDITIONBleak Choices for Women Giving Birth in War-Torn Sudan|May 24, 2023, Page A4
    A day-old child being treated for severe Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Al Nada hospital in Omdurman, Sudan, in a photo provided by the Sudanese American Physicians Association. The child survived.
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    Health

    New Method Improves Speed and Cost of Birth Defect Testing

    If the technique is confirmed, women who have had miscarriages or those undergoing prenatal screening may no longer need to rely on centralized testing labs for results.

    By Gina Kolata

    PRINT EDITIONResearchers Report Advance in Birth-Defect Testing|August 23, 2022, Page D5
    Extra or missing chunks of genes are usually fatal to embryos, and the fetuses that survive with them often have severe birth defects.
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    Times Insider

    Breaking Down New Rules About ‘Forever Chemicals’

    Lisa Friedman, who covers climate change, discussed the fight to regulate toxic chemicals found in nearly half of America’s tap water.

    By Josh Ocampo

    PRINT EDITIONRules About ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Broken Down|April 24, 2024, Page A2
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