Jill Rako is all too familiar with the discomforts of children's hospitals: Her 15-year-old son Daniel, born with spinabifida, the incomplete development of the spinal cord, has logged dozens of surgeries and stays at Nationwide Children's.
We have also had scientific research which has helped us to uncover the cause of a condition in newborn babies called spinabifida, that is caused in part by the mother's having not enough folic acid.