LOS ANGELES - Pregnant women were afraid to have it. Doctors were afraid to do it. Hospitals stopped performing the surgery because the government wanted evidence it was safe and worth doing. Now, a ...

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

Neural tube defects are among the most challenging congenital conditions in medicine, with a devastating burden on patients, families, and health care systems. These defects arise when the neural tube ...

Pregnant women were afraid to have it. Doctors were afraid to do it. Hospitals stopped performing the surgery because the government wanted evidence it was safe and worth doing. Now, a landmark study ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- An FDA study at UTHealth is helping children with spina bifida live to their best potential, and it comes on its national day, recognized on Oct. 25, which raises awareness of ...

The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 3. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. Wow, who would have predicted how this episode turned out… ...

Spina bifida is a developmental malformation of the spinal cord that leads to complications in several organ systems and considerable disability, even decades after repair of the anomaly. Before the ...

Women who are obese before pregnancy face a higher risk of having babies with a variety of birth defects than women with a healthy weight, a new study suggests. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

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