A child with spina bifida can face a lot of obstacles, and numerous appointments with health-care providers is just one of them. The orthopedist checks her bones. The neurosurgeon keeps an eye on the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic performed the hospital's first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect in a nearly 23-week-old fetus. The first surgery of its ...

An Ohio hospital successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a birth defect in a nearly 23-week-old fetus, making it one of few elite medical facilities in the U.S. capable of ...

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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WTHR) - A team of doctors successfully performed in utero surgery on a fetus at the Cleveland Clinic. The surgery, performed in February, repaired a spina bifida birth defect in a ...

The Cleveland Clinic has joined other top hospitals in North America and can now offer in utero surgery. The hospital announced Wednesday that after more than a year of preparations it has ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UAMS) – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has opened an adult Spina Bifida Clinic, the first multidisciplinary clinic available to adult patients in Arkansas.

Theo Dawson was diagnosed with spina bifida after a 20-week ultrasound and received fetal surgery before he was born.

A baby girl who was operated on in the womb to treat and prevent a birth defect is now thriving. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio joined other top hospitals in the nation by performing its ...