HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Children born with spina bifida usually face a multitude of challenges throughout their lives, with many of them having limited mobility. But a ground breaking experimental surgery ...

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 ...

Doctors saw that Cayden had spina bifida, a condition that affects the spine and can shape nearly every part of a child’s ...

A clinical trial for spina bifida treatment suggests that a surgical approach relying on stem cells is safe for patients. Its ...

What if surgeons could repair a birth defect before a baby is even born? For some families facing a diagnosis of spina bifida, that possibility is now real thanks to advances in fetal surgery. Spina ...

Spina bifida is a major fetal structural condition that involves significant neuromuscular and skeletal changes, and nearly half of the children who have it also have scoliosis. Severe scoliosis has a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Maddison Vance said when her baby was diagnosed with spina bifida shortly after her 20-week ultrasound, there was no question in her and her husband's minds that they were going to ...

Three-year-old Floyce Oyier struggles to stand on her feet. Unlike children of her age, she still crawls. She is unstable and her legs are feeble. Her mother, Davin Oyundi, doesn't mind carrying ...

Scientists at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, and the Department of Neurosciences and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, have made a significant breakthrough in ...

A Tinton Falls boy diagnosed with spina bifida in the womb has defied a dire prognosis by learning to walk. Nikos Kaymakcian, now 7, was named the 2025 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ New Jersey ...