Anencephaly is a defect in the closure of the neural tube. It is a congenital anomaly characterized by the total or partial absence of the cranial vault, the brain being reduced to a small mass. Most ...

Anencephaly: incomplete development of major parts of the brain Babies with anencephaly usually do not live long, and those with spina bifida may be permanently disabled. These are scary problems ...

Anencephaly occurs when an infant is born without parts of their brain and skull. It is a severe congenital anomaly, which means that a baby develops anencephaly in the womb.

Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect (NTD) in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. Approximately 1 in every 4,600 babies in the United States is born with anencephaly. The ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15 ½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which ...

The prognosis for a baby with anencephaly is dire. The National Institutes of Health says that “if the infant is not stillborn, it will usually die within a few hours or days after birth.” ...

In the spring of 1991, in the border city of Brownsville, TX, USA, a woman learned from an ultrasound that her unborn baby had anencephaly. A month later, at the same hospital, anencephaly was ...

Photo:Grace Cary (iStock by Getty Images) A Kentucky mother of three was forced to travel hundreds of miles to Illinois to receive an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a ...

But when she went in for a 16-week checkup, Brittany Vidrine learned her baby had anencephaly, a fetal abnormality in which a baby’s skull does not form. There is no known cure or treatment.

A Louisiana woman traveled out of state to terminate her pregnancy after her baby started to develop without a skull, a fetal anomaly recognized under the state's exceptions to the abortion ban.