Researchers from Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago have developed the first device that can continuously track a fetus’s vital signs while still ...

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 ...

The revolutionary procedure at Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital reduces the risk of complications for moms ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

Fountain twins with rare syndrome survive harrowing in utero surgery; become poster children for fetal disorder By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com Dec 7, 2023 ...

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 ...

Lainey Ramos Arango is now snuggling her healthy five-week-old baby boy, Lucas. This precious time is all thanks to the doctors at Jackson Health System who saved the baby’s life by performing the ...

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 ...

Surgery usually takes place within a few days after birth. But now, results from a new study have opened the way for children to get treatment before they are born. Evan Terrell plays basketball with ...