Doctors believe an increased number of microcephaly cases in Brazil is due to the use of a Monsanto-manufactured pesticide. Multiple credible public health experts are investigating a concurrent ...

Babies exposed to the Zika virus as fetuses are more than 50 times more likely to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains — a condition called microcephaly — as other babies, ...

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, ...

Measuring head circumference (also known as occipito-frontal circumference) is a significant part of the proper evaluation of a child’s growth and development, as it represents a direct indication of ...

Of the many mysteries that remain about the Zika virus and its attack on the Americas, perhaps the most puzzling one relates to the bizarre distribution of babies born with Zika-induced microcephaly.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gwen Hartley has stories to share about raising two daughters with microcephaly, the condition that has been linked to the ...

Microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, was a rare, fairly unknown disorder before the Zika outbreak drew attention to it. While the virus hasn’t been confirmed ...

The Zika virus might have been just another mosquito-borne infection—only on our radar if we lived in or planned to visit a tropical setting, much like yellow fever, dengue fever, or Chikungunya—if ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitos are seen in a lab at the Fiocruz institute on January 26, 2016 in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Senior Correspondent As Zika virus infections continue to spread, with cases ...

A killer is on the loose in the Americas, blamed for dozens of deaths and thousands of critical injuries. Officials have identified a prime suspect that appears to have the means, motive and ...

An alarming rise in Brazil in the number of cases of babies born with smaller-than-normal heads — a condition known as microcephaly — has public health officials racing to determine if the cause is a ...