Every year, 200 pregnant women in North Carolina find out their babies havespina bifida. Our state has one of the highest rates of the birth defect in the country. Doctors do not know why this is the ...

When a woman is pregnant, her thoughts tend to focus on the baby's name, the color of the nursery and preparing the home for the new arrival. Most parents-to-be never have to worry about their child ...

The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago will receive $10 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to study ways to improve bowel continence in people ...

At the largest World Congress on Spina Bifida Research and Care (SBWC) in event history, representatives from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama made up 17% of the total ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and spina bifida are distinct conditions that affect the nerves that allow for voluntary motor control. Share on Pinterest press coverage photography/Getty Images SMA is ...