A WALLAN Primary School Student became the first Australian baby to have in utero surgery to lessen the impacts of Spina ...

According to Dr Hamisi Shabani, spinal and neurological surgery specialist at MOI, these conditions affect about 4,000 ...

Four out of every 1000 children born in India have Spina bifida; though this condition can lead to serious debility, still there is a lot of prevailing unawareness about it.

Wow, who would have predicted how this episode turned out… I was unprepared for the couple who relinquished their baby born with spina bifida. Let’s talk a bit about spina bifida. It is one of ...

A mum was relieved to see her newborn son kick his legs after he had spinal surgery while still inside the womb. Serena Nye, 24, was told after her 20-week pregnancy scan her unborn son had spina ...

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 ...

Peterson family from left, mom Kelly, Hadley and dad Larry. Courtesy of the Peterson family About 1 in 2,875 babies is born with spina bifida in the United States each year, according to the ...

Small but mighty, 6-year-old Hadley Peterson has been a spitfire since the day she was born. “This one is sassy, sarcastic, funny — and that eye roll,” mom Kelly Peterson tells PEOPLE in an ...

Spina bifida (with exact cause unknown) is a congenital defect by which a baby is born with a ‘swelling’ or ‘wound’ on the back, leading to improper development of the spinal cord.

The baby needed to be removed from Lisa's stomach for a lifesaving surgery before he was placed back and finally born for the second time at 38 weeks. She said: "Everyone is so happy and amazed ...

For decades, all spina bifida surgeries were conducted after a baby was born, but a 2011 study found that surgery done while the baby was still in the mother's womb had much better health outcomes ...

Neutral tube defect Spina bifida is a birth defect that affects a baby’s neural tube (the structure that eventually develops into a baby’s spinal cord and brain).