UAMS Center for Birth Defects Research & Prevention

The Arkansas Center has an impressive history of conducting population-based birth defects surveillance & multicenter research for over 20 years.

The Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research & Prevention is one of 10 centers across the nation funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) with the overall goal to understand the causes of birth defects. That research includes the two multicenter, case-control studies—the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) & the Birth Defects Study To Evaluate Pregnancy ExposureS  ...