Stem-cell–enhanced in‑utero surgery for spina bifida safely protects the fetal spinal cord and has so far prevented shunt ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Surgeons at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) performed Oregon’s first in-utero surgery to repair spina bifida. Oregon couple Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her husband ...

Diagnosed with severe spina bifida, baby Nixon receives pioneering stem cell fetal surgery, gaining mobility beyond ...

“Once you reach that gestational age of development and that back does not close, it won’t close and in fact, if anything, we see the disease will progress,” said Dr. Joseph Lillegard, the head of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When Angela Ibarra-Garcia went in for her 20-week ultrasound, she expected a routine checkup. Instead, she learned her baby girl, Daniela, had spina bifida, a condition where the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital made history by performing the first in-utero repair for spina bifida in the Northwest and north of Los Angeles. Vanessa Garcia-Pelayo and her ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic has joined ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – When Courtney Anderson and her family arrived for a routine ultrasound to learn the sex of their baby, they expected joy — not life-changing news. Doctors told them their son, later ...

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — On a typical day at the Ax family’s home in Queen Creek, 2-and-a-half-year-old twins Goldie and Violet are enjoying a tea party with their big sister Scarlett. While the twins do ...

The coronavirus outbreak has put a hold on many things over the last few months, including some elective surgeries. When Nohely Uriostegui and her husband, Jose Pava, found out they were pregnant with ...

A new, hair-like robotic probe developed by Northwestern University researchers is the first device of its kind that can safely enter the uterus and monitor a fetus' vital signs during in utero ...