Zanele Khumalo desperately needs help for her disabled teenage son. Anelenhle was born at the Evander Hospital in 2011. The doctor told the new mother her son was not well and had to go to Steve Biko ...

Serena Nye, from Eastbourne, was told after her 20-week pregnancy scan her unborn son had spina bifida. The condition meant Tommy’s spine and spinal cord was not developing properly, causing a gap in ...

The case reported below was shown to be caused by congenital intrahepatic portal–systemic shunts. N.F. (C–P.M.C. 151–33–75), a 56-year-old married postal clerk, was entirely well until 2 1 ...

The NHS website saw more than 18,000 hits in an hour on its spina bifida pages following Sunday night’s episode of Call the Midwife. Spina bifida is a rare condition that occurs when a baby’s spine ...

Background Arteriovenous shunts below conus medullaris (AVS-BC ... AVS-lipoma (58.8%) and AVS with spina bifida/meningocele (75.0%) were mainly located in S3–S5, while others were above S2 (p<0.001).