spina bifida

Children’s Association for Maximum Potential (CAMP) Announces 2021 Summer Camp to Resume

Teens, Young Adults, and Healthcare Volunteers Needed! Children’s Association for Maximum Potential (CAMP) will resume its summer camp this May 2021 at its 55-acre camp on the Guadalupe River in Comfort Texas.  Since 1979, CAMP has provided safe, fun recreation for individuals (ages 5 – 50) with Autism, Intellectual Disability, Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spina Bifida, and visual or hearing impairment.  Siblings can also attend CAMP, to give caregivers a much-needed break.  Healthcare and young […]

Texas Children’s Fetal Center Teaches Its Innovative Fetoscopic Spina Bifida Repair Technique Using Telemedicine To International Colleagues During Covid-19 Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a global impact, surgeons at Texas Children’s Fetal Center® have turned to technology to continue teaching their innovative, minimally-invasive technique for repairing spina bifida in-utero to fetal surgeons worldwide. Pioneered by a team at Texas Children’s in 2014 led by Dr. Michael Belfort, obstetrician-in-chief at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, the paradigm-shifting technique allows surgeons to […]