Advances in surgical navigation may be breathing new life into an older spine technique, one spine surgeon says. The case ...

In a study to be presented Saturday, Jan. 28, in the oral concurrent session at 8:45 a.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers at ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Callie Horne and her husband, Nash, met at the University of Texas at Austin. They found out their son, also named Nash, had spina bifida at her 20-week ultrasound. Spina bifida is a ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In Central Florida, there is a surgery team that performs an extremely delicate procedure with the goal of reversing the birth defect spina bifida before the baby is even born.

Las Cruces resident Katarina Torrez was pregnant with her third child in 2023 and had no reason to think this pregnancy would be any different from the others. At 20 weeks, she went in for a standard ...

Sanz Cortes M; Chmait RH; Lapa DA; Belfort MA; Carreras E; Miller JL; Brawura Biskupski Samaha R; Sepulveda Gonzalez G; Gielchinsky Y; Yamamoto M; Persico N; Santorum ...

Spina bifida, also known as myelomeningocele, occurs when spinal tissue fails to fuse properly during the early stages of pregnancy. The birth defect can lead to a range of lifelong cognitive, ...