New York this week joined a growing number of states to universally screen early for CMV, prompted, in large part, by parents whose children have experienced health effects from the virus.

A common virus that is largely unknown and generally harmless in healthy individuals is also a leading cause of hearing loss in babies due to exposure in the womb. Yet most women are not warned about ...

Doctors and state leaders in Wisconsin are looking for the best ways to prevent, screen and diagnose congenital ...

“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus or CMV. Although more than half of the U ...

However, her next scan at 20 weeks revealed “everything was wrong”, with little Minnie-Mae having severe brain damage and liver and kidney problems due to CMV. The virus is responsible for ...

The state was the first in the nation to make CMV screenings universal, which has led to hundreds of early detections in ...

One significant concern is Cytomegalovirus (CMV), which many adults carry without symptoms. This virus can be passed to babies through saliva during kissing and may result in serious complications ...

CMV is a virus that can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her child and often results in hearing loss, vision problems, and other health issues for infants. It is the most common infectious ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that a common and usually harmless virus may positively influence how skin cancer patients respond to current treatments. Cytomegalovirus ...

The herpes virus infections CMV and human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) can be severely immunosuppressive in patients post BMT. CMV infection can result in interstitial pneumonitis (IP) which ...

Her name is Regan Margera and her son Kairo was born with complications from a virus known as the cytomegalovirus or CMV. She didn't even know she had it in pregnancy. "It's actually a very common ...

This finding suggests that the virus may offer some protection against MM. Further research into how CMV achieves this could support the development of therapies aimed at preventing melanoma ...