Serena Nye, from Eastbourne, was told after her 20-week pregnancy scan her unborn son had spina bifida. The condition meant Tommy’s spine and spinal cord was not developing properly, causing a gap in ...

There is no cure - babies who have the foetal surgery will still have spina bifida when they are born - but their physical strength and overall health are improved. So surely, having such ground ...

BBC hit series Call the Midwife saw Baby June's parents leave her behind after she was born with a serious condition, leading ...

Two hundred babies are born with the condition in the UK every year. Gill Yaz, of the spina bifida charity Shine, said surgery would not be right for everyone, but "anything that increases the ...

“Who better to teach a baby with spina bifida how to grow up to be independent and to manage their own care?” Hadley Peterson's doctor says Indiana couple Larry and Kelly Peterson have spina ...

Her blood work was abnormal. She and husband, Jared, went in for an ultrasound and got some news they never expected: Their developing baby had spina bifida. “They took us in a room and said ...

The NHS website page for spina bifida got over 18,000 hits in a single hour, following an episode exploring the condition.

The NHS website saw more than 18,000 hits in an hour on its spina bifida pages following Sunday night’s episode of Call the Midwife. Spina bifida is a rare condition that occurs when a baby’s spine ...

Spina bifida is the most common permanently disabling birth defect that is associated with life. Each year approximately 1,400 babies born in the United States have spina bifida, according to the U.S.

UC Davis Health’s groundbreaking trial aims to reverse the paralysis of spina bifida before birth. Multiple babies have been born after receiving the world’s first spina bifida treatment ...

Babies born with other conditions, such as spina bifida, also typically undergo this complex procedure. “There are numerous short and long-term complications associated with this surgery ...