HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- An FDA study at UTHealth is helping children with spina bifida live to their best potential, and it comes on its national day, recognized on Oct. 25, which raises awareness of ...

One little girl was facing a long road to recovery from a severe spinal defect. Then, doctors put a viral song to good use in helping her recover! That song is the recent viral hit song "Baby Shark." ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 3. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. Wow, who would have predicted how this episode turned out… ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A severe spinal defect threatened the life of a Wahiawa woman’s unborn child. Now more than a year later, her baby is thriving thanks to a successful surgery before birth. In 2023, ...

A prenatal screening failed to detect a suspected spinal defect due to an irregular process in Huanggang city, Hubei province, municipal authorities said on Friday.

Genetic mutations which occur naturally during the earliest stages of an embryo's development can cause the severe birth defect spina bifida, finds a new experimental study in mice led by UCL ...

Spina bifida is a developmental malformation of the spinal cord that leads to complications in several organ systems and considerable disability, even decades after repair of the anomaly. Before the ...