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Texas Down Syndrome Lawsuit

Down Syndrome is a birth defect that occurs when a child has more chromosomes than normal, and it affects the child's appearance and mental abilities. There is no cure for Down Syndrome. Recent evidence has linked the maternal use of...

Texas Encephalocele Lawsuit

Encephalocele is a serious neural tube birth defect in which a baby is born with a sac protruding from its skull that may contain brain matter and spinal fluid. Nearly half of babies with this birth defect do not survive...

Texas Congenital Blindness Lawsuit

Congenital Blindness occurs when a baby is born unable to see. Treatment options are usually limited, and most babies born blind are never able to see. However, blindness rarely prevents people from leading fully productive professional and social lives. There...

Texas Cleft Palate Lawsuit

Cleft Palate is a common birth defect in which the roof of the mouth is separated by a gap. It often interferes with speech, feeding, and swallowing, and requires surgical repair. Recent evidence links the maternal use of medications such...

Texas Cleft Lip Lawsuit

Cleft Lip is a congenital birth defect in which the baby's upper lip is separated by a gap. Surgery is required to correct this defect and reduce the chance of complications affecting feeding, speech impariment, and self-esteem problems related to...

Texas Craniosynostosis Lawsuit

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect affecting the skull or brain development, in which the sutures between the bone-plates fuse prematurely, and the child is born with a misshapen or abnormally small head. Surgery may be possible to relieve pressure and...

Texas Congenital Hand Deformity Lawsuit

A Congenital Hand Deformity is a difference in the way a child’s hand develops, and may include extra fingers, webbed digits, connected fingers, missing fingers, or extra large fingers. Hand deformities may negatively impact a child’s self-esteem, ability to socialize,...

Texas Hydranencephaly Lawsuit

Hydranencephaly is a deadly birth defect of the brain, in which fluid-filled sacs form instead of brain matter. A child born with hydranencephaly is not expected to live for more than one year, and there is no treatment. Certain drugs,...

Texas Anencephaly Lawsuit

Anencephaly is a deadly neural tube birth defect, in which the baby's brain and skull fail to develop. There is no cure for anencephaly. It develops during the first month of pregnancy, before most women knows she is pregnant, and...

Texas Neural Tube Defect Lawsuit

A Neural Tube Defect is a birth defect that develops very early in fetal development, when the protective covering of the spinal cord does not close completely. For babies born with severe neural tube defects, they suffer permanent paralysis, and...