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

A brave Belfast girl with spina bifida has spoken out about the bullying she's faced as she seeks to raise awareness around ...

Spina bifida occurs in early pregnancy when the neural tube, a structure that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord, fails to close properly. As a result of this the spinal cord and nerves ...

A spina bifida is created when the spinal cord, which normally closes during fetal development, doesn’t do so, and a space is created in the area where the opening remains.

When the spine or spinal cord do not form properly during human development, a disorder called spina bifida, or meningomyelocele arises. People born with this condition can have very different ...

The Spina Bifida Association of the Carolinas is hosting the annual Walk-N-Roll event on Saturday, Oct. 19. Spina bifida is a birth defect that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don't form ...

Spina bifida in Latin means split spine, so like the nerves and the spinal cord and the spine don't form properly. So it's a type of neural tube defect, a birth defect.

Mum Lisa first learned about Luca's spina bifida during her pregnancy Credit: Caters Spina bifida is a birth defect where the spine and spinal cord don’t form properly. It can lead to various ...

Spina bifida is Latin for split spine and is a birth defect in which an area of the spinal column doesn’t form properly, leaving a section of the spinal cord and spinal nerves exposed.

Spina bifida is a birth defect in which tissue and bone don't form correctly around the spinal cord in the womb, leaving the spinal cord exposed, usually with a hole around the base of the spine.

"All patients we recruited have the most severe form of spina bifida, and all underwent best-practice comprehensive genomic sequencing," Gleeson said. "We identified 22q11.2del in 6 out of 715 ...