Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

Drawing on his own life experiences and inspired by friends and acquaintances he’s met along the way, filmmaker Adam Elliot ...

The stitches on her lips and palate from a recent surgery prevented her from speaking, but soon she will be able to talk and smile just like other children. On 20 January, Adiba underwent surgery to ...

Symptoms of Treacher Collins syndrome can be mild or severe. It usually affects the cheekbones ... An opening in the roof of their mouth (cleft palate). An airway that is so small it causes serious ...

By: Monica Leff, M.D., obstetrician & gynecologist, Chair, Women’s Division, MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Each year, January marks National Birth Defects Awareness Month, a time ...

THIS MORNING AND YOU’RE LIKE, WHOA! IT IS A MILD OUT THERE. WE BARELY DROPPED BELOW 40 DEGREES OVERNIGHT IN THE PAST HOUR. WE’VE STARTED TICKING DOWN HERE ALONG THE ROUTE TWO CORRIDOR.

The 25 types of BDs were anencephaly, spina bifida, encephalocele, congenital hydrocephalus, cleft palate, cleft lip, cleft lip with cleft palate, microtia, other malformation of external ear, ...

Common formula feeding problems Your baby spits up after every feeding. Spitting up is very common in babies, with 50 percent ...

Former Penn State Nittany Lions cornerback Jalen Kimber will participate in the 100th East-West Shrine Bowl this week. The ...

In fact, Esrp1 mutant mice exhibit many phenotypes other than inner ear malformation, including cleft lip and palate arising from a defective epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Lee et al., 2020).