bifida

Folate deficiency causes serious problems in pregnancy, neural tube defects like spina bifida, and may impair sperm production.

One of my friends in high school was pre-nataly diagnosed with spina bifida and the doctor recommended an abortion.

Not only is it possible, fetal surgery is more or less standard treatment for spina bifida at this point.

Maybe you could explain objectivist principles to parents with children born with 'pre-existing conditions' like spina bifida or taysach's syndrome?

The mechanism of injury in spina bifida is that the spinal cord gets exposed and damaged.

Children with spinal bifida often develop cognitive abilities much slower than children without it.

My high school hosted the county's special day class for kids with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, a majority from spina bifida.

Spina bifida is usually preventable by folic acid intake (and avoiding some medications).

My daughter is seven now and was born with spina bifida and it’s been a long journey full of pain, but also joy.

Sadly, the divorce rate is over 50% for parents of spina bifida children.

I had a cousin with spina bifida, who only lived because her own mother was a doctor and prevented this outcome.

My daughter with spina bifida is only 18 months.

Spina Bifida is tough as it can range anywhere from “wheelchair bound and substantial intellectual disability” to “has a hard time with potty training”, and you won’t really know until your child has been born.

To expand on "great public health successes": folic acid supplementation is particularly important if you're pregnant, because it significantly reduces the odds of having a baby with neural tube defects like spina bifida (which is one of the milder NTDs, frankly).

I am going to force you to be good, by my definition of good, at the point of a gun." I would want to help someone with spina bifida, but I would not want to do it because you force me to at gunpoint, while simultaneously creating a system where I myself can't get the healthcare I can actually pay for.

He’d overheard me talking about my daughter just being born, and said “I’m nearly 60, I have spina bifida, and I want you to know it’s going to be alright.” He stressed how important doing a regular catheter routine is, as the most likely thing to kill him in the next 10 years is kidney failure due to bad catheter habits as a kid and young adult.

We were just informed that Sally also suffered from Spina Bifida.

The main goal of physical repair of the defect in utero is actually to reduce the incidence of hydrocephalus and hindbrain herniation, which are very common in people with Spina Bifida.