According to CBS News, John Mellencamp was born in 1951 with spina bifida and was one of three babies with the condition ...

In 2020, the Spina Bifida Association recognized the UAB Adult Spina Bifida Clinic as a Clinic Care Partner, making it one of the initial recipients of this distinction. To earn this honor, the clinic ...

Choosing to have children is always a step into the unknown. The unknown for Alisha Staten…a condition called spina bifida. She never expected it, but you’ll see she rose to the challenge it presented ...

Spina bifida is Latin for split spine and is a birth defect in which an area of the spinal column doesn’t form properly, leaving a section of the spinal cord and spinal nerves exposed. The exact cause ...

WASHINGTON — It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder ...

ARVADA, Colo. — When Shannon Landry Dawson and Noel Dawson learned at their 20-week prenatal checkup that their son had been diagnosed with myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, they ...