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| Web Pages |
| How Folate Can Help Prevent Birth Defects |
| Information from the FDA on the importance of folic acid supplementation before pregnancy. |
| Newborn Screening.Com |
| Regularly updated information and news pertaining to testing and screening. Explanation as to what it is, condition profiles, lab profiles and a discussion forum. |
| Tyler For Life Foundation, Inc. |
| Organization providing information on newborn screening and related disorders. |
| National Birth Defects Prevention Network |
| Information about the organization, news, publications and upcoming meetings. Links to state monitoring programs, national as well as international. Instructions for joining the email list. |
| The New Jersey Fetal Abnormalities Registry |
| Information about the NJFAR, FAQs asked by participants, newsletter, links and contact details. |
| Birth Defects and Adverse Birth Outcomes |
| Information about the risks of using alcohol, tobacco, and drugs during pregnancy. |
| California Teratogen Information Service |
| CTIS provides free, nonjudgemental information on the effects of drugs, medications, and other exposures on the unborn child. |
| Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention |
| This organization works to reduce the prevalence of birth defects and their economic, social, and psychological impact in Arkansas and the United States. |
| Kiss It Make It Better: Vitamin A and Birth Defects |
| Includes information on possible risks pre-formed vitamin A for a pregnant woman. |
| Effects of Tobacco Use On the Unborn Baby |
| Summary of a study performed by the Indiana State Department of Health. |
| March of Dimes |
| Resources for reducing infant morality and birth defects. Offers a health library, research, programs and a donation form. |
| Anencephaly Awareness |
| Possible causes and information for future prevention of this disorder. |
| California Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Organization, CalFAS.org |
| Working together to eliminate the disability FASD, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by offering information, support and advocates. FASD includes FAS, ARND, ARBD and Static Encephalopathy caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. |
| The Pregnancy Risk Network |
| Offers free telephone information about possible effects that medications, alchohol, illness, on children. |
| ObGynWorld: What Route for Delivery? |
| Article reviews research findings on whether vaginal delivery or C-section is better in the case of various congenital anomalies. [Requires free registration.] |