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Birth Defect Research for Children provides parents and expectant parents free fact sheets about the most common categories of birth defects. We also offer a parent networking service that will connect you with other families who have children with the same birth defects. If you are researching birth defects, we have an area to get you started. Learn more about us and how we started, our projects and services, or participate in our birth defect research project, the National Birth Defect Registry.

On-line National Birth Defect Registry
Thanks to a grant from Mitchell Kapor Foundation, parents can now participate in the National Birth Defect Registry on-line. The registry collects comprehensive information on over three hundred categories of structural and functional birth defects and pre-conceptual/pre-natal exposures of the mothers and fathers of these children. Registry data has found patterns of birth defects in the children of Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans. The registry has also helped identify clusters of birth defects in communities with toxic environmental exposures and in the children of mothers exposed to similar medications during pregnancy. Registry data have been presented to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the Veterans’ Administration, the Endocrine Disrupters Subcommittee of the EPA and in many national and international media forums.

Click here to participate in the National Birth Defect Registry and Parent Matching Project.

Birth Defects and the Environment
New peer reviewed paper that looks at the interactions between birth defects and the environment.

To read the paper click here.