The total estimated cost of birth defect-associated hospitalizations was $22.2 billion in the United States in 2019, according to research published in the July 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

January 19, 2007 — Birth defects are leading causes of pediatric hospitalizations and medical expenditures, and account for about 20% of total infant deaths, according to findings from a study ...

Ultimately, the solution to value defects is not as simple as withholding spending on low-value care for the US to save a trillion dollars. To repair our spending on wasteful services that increase ...

A Massachusetts federal judge has decided that plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over claims that the anti-nausea drug Zofran caused birth defects must pay GlaxoSmithKline $429,000 for costs ...

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 After 10 years ...