Researchers and health care providers use the term neural tube defects to describe one important category of birth defects.

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Before you reach the last few weeks of pregnancy, you should take care of a few last minute to-dos.

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An Englishwoman defied the odds this week by giving birth to identical triplets, who were conceived while she was on the birth control pill.

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