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 ...

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 ...

Lexi Badenhop's first birthday party last week, full of colorful presents, party hats and tutus, marked not only a milestone for her and her family, but for central Ohio's medical community. Just over ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Ten years ago, Anna Williamson’s parents took a perilous risk when they elected to have a neurological impairment on her back mended in an experimental surgery before she was born. As ...

Spina bifida can cause leg paralysis and brain swelling. “Before fetal surgery was available a lot of these kids would be confined to wheelchairs,” said Dr. Halvorson. Each milestone a blessing for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theo Dawson was diagnosed with spina bifida after a 20-week ultrasound and received fetal surgery before he was born.