This report demonstrates the importance of state birth defects surveillance programs and also the need for more research to identify the causes of many birth defects.

Our report identifies for the first time the severe and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem.

Our report identifies for the first time the severe, and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem.

You never know what the New Year will bring. So, even if you're not yet planning to have a baby, when you start the New Year, resolve to help give your baby a healthy start in life.

The March of Dimes is excited to be working with WTEF. Their work in health literacy and reaching underserved families is vital to the health of our nation's babies.

We need to increase the amount of folic acid in the grain supply and add it to corn flour. That way, women will get most of the folic acid they need through a healthy diet - without having to think about it -- and their babies will be safer.