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Women may now be able to order birth control from their local pharmacy or even straight to their home address by simply using a new app.

The second baby with Zika-lined microcephaly was born in the United States in New Jersey on June 1. She was delivered at Hackensack University Medical Center where the mother discovered via ultrasound that her new daughter had serious side effects and complications due to her infection with the Zika virus. Though this is the second born in the US, it’s the first in the contiguous United States.
Microcephaly is characterized by incomplete brain development and an unusually small head. Many children with this disorder also have intellectual disabilities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated the way it reports pregnancies in carriers of Zika. The new results from this method have found that over 279 pregnant women are positive carriers for the Zika virus. At this point, however, only a handful of women have suffered from miscarriages or confirmed birth defects, but that doesn’t mean the statistics aren’t alarming.

A strange birth defect is on the rise in the United States, and scientists are at a loss to explain it.
Gastroschisis is a birth defect that causes a baby’s intestines to protrude outside of his/her body, through a hole in the abdominal wall beside the belly button. Sometimes this hole is very small, but it can also be quite large, and other organs such as the stomach and liver can extend from the baby’s body.

For years pregnant women have been told to limit their fish consumption due to high levels of mercury in some types of seafood. However, a recent study has found pregnant women who eat some of the same fish they’ve been told to avoid may confer protective effects on fetal brain development and protection against autism.

It's being carried by mosquitoes and spreading from Brazil toward the US.
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The Zika virus is spreading so quickly in Latin America and the Caribbean that health officials in El Salvador are advising women not to become pregnant until at least 2018 to give them a chance to get on top of the crisis.
Other Latin American countries, including Colombia and Ecuador, as well as Jamaica and in the Caribbean, have recommended delaying pregnancy, though for not as long.

The Zika virus is on the move, and it has arrived in the United States, with the first case of the illness being confirmed in a baby in Hawaii.
Little was known about the Zika virus in the U.S. until now because it generally causes mild symptoms including a fever, sometimes a rash, conjunctivitis and headache. In rare cases, it can cause the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre, which results in paralysis.

No condom? No problem! Don’t want to have a vasectomy? No worries! Guys don’t have to become a baby daddy. Men who want to avoid fatherhood will soon be able to do so with just the flip of a switch.
But installing the “sperm switch” is still quite invasive, so don’t get too, um, excited just yet.

In the U.K., a lack of folic acid in foods is a problem. Nearly 2,000 babies have been born with serious side effects such as spina bifida since 1998 due to the government’s failure to add the B vitamin to flour, according to researchers.
About 150 yearly birth defects could have been avoided had the government added it to flour like 78 other countries, including the United States. [1]