Florida State University researchers have demonstrated that significantly increasing dietary folic acid in mice can prevent peripheral neuropathy, a condition commonly associated with diabetes and ...

Second-trimester screening of a pregnant woman's serum for markers of such congenital abnormalities as fetal trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and neural tube defects has become an important part of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who limited their carbohydrate intake before pregnancy were slightly more likely to have an infant with ...

After receiving a life-changing spina bifida diagnosis at 20 weeks, Maddi Vance chose a groundbreaking fetal surgery to give ...

Babies who were exposed to certain organic pollutants in the womb are at a highly increased risk of neural tube defects leading to conditions such as spina bifida, according to researchers in China.

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital presents the Fetal Medicine Webinar series. These webinars will feature lectures provided by leading international experts in fetal surgery and ...

This procedure is for repairing an open neural tube defect in a baby before it is born (fetus). This procedure can be used but only when mothers and babies have regular checks to see how well it has ...

Mutations in a gene known as interferon regulatory factor 6 that cause cleft lip and palate also are implicated in neural tube defects such as spina bifida, suggests new research. Mutations in a gene ...