DETROIT — Kasey Hilton rested on the exam table with chilly ultrasound goo slathered on her belly, husband Mike sitting on the hard chair beside her. They waited for the word. Boy or girl? There were ...

At Michelle Johnson's 20-week ultrasound, she received the distressing news that her developing baby was diagnosed with myelomeningocele, also known as spina bifida. Spina bifida occurs when spinal ...

ARVADA, Colo. — When Shannon Landry Dawson and Noel Dawson learned at their 20-week prenatal checkup that their son had been diagnosed with myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, they ...

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recently celebrated the birth of its 2,000th fetal surgery patient, a milestone more than 25 years in the making. CHOP has been a leader in fetal surgery, which ...

Physicians at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have reported encouraging short-term outcomes in fetal surgery for the birth defect spina bifida. Among the benefits were a reduced need for a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the Trinkle family, baby boy Parker is a ...

A state-of-the-art in-utero procedure allows surgeons to correct a birth defect on developing babies inside the womb. But operating on a mother and her unborn child at the same time can be challenging ...