Congenital malformation.

The third ranked organization was Interplast, which is more narrowly focused on correcting deformities like cleft palate.

And in Europe, there's certain parts of Europe, where we're seeing a four fold increase in certain genital birth defects.

The United States company Gibco produces AmnioMAX, which is a culture medium for the detection of foetal congenital malformations in women over 38 years of age and is the only product known on the international market for carrying out this test.

So we need materials in closed cycles, but we need to analyze them down to the parts per million for cancer, birth defects, mutagenic effects, disruption of our immune systems, biodegradation, persistence, heavy metal content, knowledge of how we're making them and their production and so on.

Distortions will begin to unwind.

The registries created through the programme found no link between Chernobyl exposure and birth defects, and instead determined that birth defects are the result of poor nutrition in economically depressed areas.

Raging inflation causes all kinds of distortions and inefficiencies.

And so the will to do the right thing is just as important as the moral skill of improvisation and exception finding.

But policy induced distortions also play an enormous role.

The effects of POPs exposure include birth defects, cancers, and dysfunctional immune and reproductive systems.

Choking off the flow of information leads to distortion, not confidence.

But these distortions did not prevent unbalanced systems from enduring for long periods.

These distortions have to be addressed first for any trade regime to have an impact.

This combination of birth defects is referred to as pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias and is part of the spectrum of ambiguous genitalia.

In some cases, grid expansion makes sense after removing these distortions.

And they must offset the distortions created by intervention in other ways.

Hollande s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy s structural distortions.

Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.

In the absence of such coordination, the unilateral approaches now in place could generate further distortions.

This is a common characteristic in the speech and language profile because 69 of children have palatal abnormalities.

And the great distortions from being too big to fail loom large over many economies.

Let us call it the ethical issue that, if not addressed properly, risks bringing shame upon this house and destabilizing the entire process of reform.

When the hypospadias is third degree, or there are associated birth defects such as chordee or cryptorchidism, the best management can be a more complicated decision.

Like all imbalanced systems, it will have its distortions, but the arrangement could last for many years.

Thus, the money we are getting from aid is much, much less than we would earn from the removal of trade distortions.

In 2009, these distortions led Ferguson and Schularick to forecast Chimerica s collapse a prediction that seems to be coming true.

Some of the effects of malnutrition during pregnancy were immediately apparent in higher rates of stillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality.

While his delegation was opposed to arbitrary adjustments to the scale methodology, it would support the restoration of the ceiling to its previous level as a means of correcting the resulting distortions.

The center opposes the teaching of religious views in science classes in America's public schools through initiatives such as Project Steve, and is regarded as the United States' leading anti creationist organization.

Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern sector activities in low income environments.

Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock.

The fundamental factors on the Chinese side are high corporate and household savings, together with some distortion of resource utility prices.

The good news is that the economies of the Arab Awakening countries do not suffer from the deep distortions that characterized post communist Europe.

Terrorism is a heinous and perverted product of the global order, and the associated mentality glorifies military might as the source of legitimacy and denigrates the principles of international law, ethics and morality as cumbersome constrictions on the exercise of power.

But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.

Distortions in the real estate market are a powerful motivation for saving, particularly among young people who struggle to meet the high down payment needed to buy a first home.

In Europe, efficiency would be enhanced by a unified VAT rate, instead of creating distortions by charging different rates for different goods.

In other words, savings rates in Spain and other deficit countries in Europe had to drop once policy distortions forced up Germany s savings rate.

True, the US is not the worst offender in the world when it comes to farm protectionism the European Union s trade distortions are significantly more pervasive.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Restoring balance and eliminating the distortions will require time, investment, and structural change, and should be the central focus of America s economic policy.

And in many countries, distortions and discrimination in the labor market restrict women s chances of equal pay and rising to senior positions.

But, even in such an economy, years of debt fueled domestic demand may produce a loss of competitiveness and structural distortions.

It was downplayed when the emphasis shifted to price distortions under the influence of the Washington Consensus, and total factor productivity became the focus of growth empirics.