In the BBC One episode, viewers saw a baby girl born with meningocele, a serious type of spina bifida where the protective membranes around the spinal cord push out through the spine. The condition ...

Her blood work was abnormal. She and husband, Jared, went in for an ultrasound and got some news they never expected: Their developing baby had spina bifida. “They took us in a room and said ...

The 3 big things that we took away from this thus far are 1, that bacteria are present in the urinary microbiomes of almost all individuals with spina bifida. In the next generation sequencing, or the ...

SPAIN’S oldest person has revealed there’s no big secret about her living a long life. She admitted though to enjoying a simple breakfast of a glass of water mixed with lemon juice and a ...

a great-grandmother from the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is rushing to be recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness World Records.

Aug 28: Julia Flores Colque is thought to be the world's oldest person, with a recorded age of almost 118. Oldest around: If her birth certificate, which has been verified by the government, is ...

When an employee told her on Aug. 21 that she is set to be recognized as the world’s oldest living person, Itooka replied in a steady voice, “Thank you,” according to the nursing home.

The institution currently features another Brazilian, Inah Canabarro Lucas, a nun from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul as the oldest living person at 116 years, but Deolira’s family and ...