Every year, an estimated 8 million children are born with serious birth defects of genetic or partially genetic origin, and thousands of children are born with defects of post-conception origin that come from their mothers' being exposed to environmental agents, drugs, or diseases.
The March of Dimes (MoD) has long focused its attention on the public health problem of birth defects in children in the US. However, realizing that 80% of them occur in developing nations because of the more frequent ...