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 ...

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… ...

One little girl was facing a long road to recovery from a severe spinal defect. Then, doctors put a viral song to good use in helping her recover! That song is the recent viral hit song "Baby Shark." ...

Spina bifida is the most common birth defect of the central nervous system and the second most common of all structural birth defects. To learn more about it, Baylor College of Medicine's From the ...

A prenatal screening failed to detect a suspected spinal defect due to an irregular process in Huanggang city, Hubei province, municipal authorities said on Friday.

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 ...

Davin Oyundi with her son Floyce Oyier who developed spinal bifida and underwent successful correctional surgery. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Three-year-old Floyce Oyier struggles to stand on her feet.

Newborns, whose brains, spines or spinal cords do not properly develop in utero, can be born with neural tube defects (NTD), increasing their risk of physical disabilities, intellectual impairments ...

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 ...