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• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Congenital Anomalies (103)
• Health: Reproductive Health: Pregnancy and Birth: Nutrition (10)

• Anencephaly Awareness - Possible causes and information for future prevention of this disorder.
• 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.
• Birth Defect Research for Children - Birth Defect Research for Children (BDRC)provides birth defect information, parent networking, resource referral and news updates on birth defect prevention. BDRC sponsors the National Birth Defect Registry, a project that collects data for birth defect research.
• Kentucky Folic Acid Partnership - Kentucky's campaign to increase awareness of the B vitamin folic acid for birth defects prevention and to address other perinatal health issues, such as premature births.
• Kiss It Make It Better: Vitamin A and Birth Defects - Includes information on possible risks pre-formed vitamin A for a pregnant woman.
• March of Dimes - Resources for reducing infant morality and birth defects. Offers a health library, research, programs and a donation form.
• 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.
• Save Babies Through Screening Foundation, Inc. - A non-profit voluntary organization whose mission is to improve the lives of babies by preventing mental retardation and death resulting from disorders detectable through newborn screening.
• Texas Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities - Attempting to minimize the economic and human losses in Texas caused by preventable disabilities. Includes details of task forces, services and resources.
• The Pregnancy Risk Network - Offers free telephone information about possible effects that medications, alcohol, illness, on children.
• The primary prevention of birth defects: Multivitamins or folic acid? - Study of large clinical trials that found multivitamins containing folic acid are more effective at preventing neural tube defects than high dose folic acid supplements. (March 20, 2004)

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