A toddler is on the move despite a crippling condition at birth, and it's all thanks to his dad. Little Brody was born with spina bifida and spinal cord atrophy, paralyzing him below the chest. His ...

Kelly and Larry Peterson's love story began at a summer camp for children with spina bifida. Born on the same day, the couple discovered they had much in common beyond their shared birthday and ...

KSHB 41 anchor/reporter JuYeon Kim covers agricultural issues and the fentanyl crisis. Share your story idea with JuYeon. A Kansas City toddler defied great odds after undergoing a trailblazing ...

Spina bifida is among the most common and debilitating neural tube defects, affecting approximately 1 in every 2,875 newborns in the United States. This congenital malformation disrupts the normal ...

The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago will receive $10 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to study ways to improve bowel continence in people ...

In 2019, Children's Hospital Los Angeles was part of a multi-institution collaboration that was the first in the Western U.S. to perform a completely laparoscopic repair of fetal spina bifida. Now, ...

Spina bifida is a serious congenital condition caused by abnormal neural tube development during early pregnancy. While folic acid supplementation has dramatically reduced its incidence, cases persist ...

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