St. Cloud Tech student LiYun Nelson competed on June 12 in St. Michael. Her coach said she's the first St. Cloud Area School District wheelchair athlete to compete at a state track.

Let’s talk a bit about spina bifida. It is one of several types of birth defects categorized as neural tube defects (NTDs).

Neural tube defects impact approximately 300,000 births annually worldwide and remain a leading cause of infant mortality and lifelong disability. This research identified genetic factors in 8% of ...

Editor,—I read the article by Bound et al on the involvement of deprivation and environmental lead in neural tube defects (NTDs) in the journal with great interest.1 The authors suggested that lead is ...

KEYWORDS: VANGL2, Neurological Disorders, Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) Pathway, Neural Tube Defects JOURNAL NAME: Neuroscience and Medicine, Vol.15 No.2, July 3, 2024 ABSTRACT: Background: VANGL2 plays ...

They cite research showing that consuming it early in pregnancy drastically cuts down on neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida, and that Latina mothers lag far behind in their intake ...

Surgery is often necessary for infants with this condition. Neural tube defects are abnormalities that impact the development of the brain and spinal cord in the early stages of pregnancy.

Summary Spina bifida occulta is a neural tube birth defect. Its name means closed split spine. It is the mildest form of spina bifida, a birth defect in which one or more bones in your spine do not ...

Khalid, S. I., et al. (2023) The impact of voluntary folate fortification of corn masa flour on US pregnancies complicated by neural tube defects.

Closed neural tube defects Various defects may be present in the spinal cord’s fat, bone, or meninges.

This means they run the risk of giving birth to babies with severe abnormalities called neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. These conditions affect about one in 1,000 pregnancies in the UK.