Gastroschisis is a complex and costly birth condition that affects babies' bowels. Cases have doubled in the United States over the last two decades. We talked with Geoanna M. Bautista, an assistant ...

Gastroschisis is a congenital defect that affects development of the abdominal wall while a baby is growing inside the womb. The baby is born without their abdominal wall intact and surgery is ...

Gastroschisis (Greek word for “abdominal cleft”) refers to a usually small (<4cm) full-thickness paraumbilical (usually right-sided) congenital disability of the abdominal wall, allowing abdominal ...

Washoe County, Nevada, U.S., experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 - April 2008. Gastroschisis is a birth defect that occurs early in ...

3-D ultrasound image demonstrating free loops of intestine in amniotic cavity at 34 weeks of gestation. (Rachel Page et al.) Cases of a rare birth defect called gastroschisis are increasing in the U.S ...

The prevalence of gastroschisis, a serious abdominal wall birth defect, in the United States has continued to increase since the 1980s, especially in infants born to young, black mothers, the Centers ...

A decline in smoking in the general population, including pregnant people, over the last few decades corresponded with a decline in infants born with a birth defect called gastroschisis, according to ...

Rates of a serious birth defect are on the rise in the United States, and a new report suggests the condition may be linked to opioid use. The report, published Jan. 17 by researchers at the Centers ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — A man from Chicago’s West Side continues to beat the odds despite being born with a rare condition in which his organs were outside his body. Cases of the genetic condition ...

You don't want your newborn spilling his or her guts. Not from interrogation, because your newborn doesn't really know anything yet, but also not from gastroschisis. Gastroschisis is a serious birth ...

“It’s the longest hour I’ve ever been through,” said Charlie Hayes, the baby’s father ...