Rerouting urinary nerves to help spina bifida

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure - and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients....

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