PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Surgeons at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) performed Oregon’s first in-utero surgery to repair spina bifida. Oregon couple Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her husband ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital made history by performing the first in-utero repair for spina bifida in the Northwest and north of Los Angeles. Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When Angela Ibarra-Garcia went in for her 20-week ultrasound, she expected a routine checkup. Instead, she learned her baby girl, Daniela, had spina bifida, a condition where the ...

The Cleveland Clinic has joined other top hospitals in North America and can now offer in utero surgery. The hospital announced Wednesday that after more than a year of preparations they have ...

“Once you reach that gestational age of development and that back does not close, it won’t close and in fact, if anything, we see the disease will progress,” said Dr. Joseph Lillegard, the head of ...

A Dallas couple turned to Texas Children's Hospital for a complex and high-risk procedure to insert a stent in their son's heart while he was still in the womb.

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — On a typical day at the Ax family’s home in Queen Creek, 2-and-a-half-year-old twins Goldie and Violet are enjoying a tea party with their big sister Scarlett. While the twins do ...

Lainey Ramos Arango is now snuggling her healthy five-week-old baby boy, Lucas. This precious time is all thanks to the doctors at Jackson Health System who saved the baby’s life by performing the ...

WE’RE SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU. OH, YEAH. NO, WE ARE. WE ARE EVEN BEING IN THIS MOMENT. IT JUST FEELS LIKE VERY FULL CIRCLE. JUST FOUR MONTHS OLD AND LITTLE ASANTE HAS ALREADY HAD TWO SURGERIES BEFORE.

In a condition known as spina bifida, children are born with an exposed spinal cord, which causes numerous physical and developmental issues. Usually, surgeons will operate on spina bifida after birth ...