July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery, learn ...

Every pet owner thinks their four-legged friend is perfect, but two veterinary nurses have won praise online after refusing to give up on a disabled boxer puppy, who they believe is just as perfect ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors, which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

Scientists studying birth defects in humans and purebred dogs have identified an association between cleft lip and cleft palate and a mutation in the ADAMTS20 gene. Their findings were presented at ...

PLAINFIELD, Ind. — July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which affects thousands of babies every year. For many families, the journey can be overwhelming and difficult. “His nose ...

MIAMI - Flipping through a photo album documenting her early years, Fort Lauderdale resident Stephanie Heintz points out that what you can't see in the pictures is that she was born with a cleft ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. –– July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, and one young girl in Janesville wants others to know you can overcome a condition like Cleft lip and thrive. 8-year-old Victoria ...

A photo of baby Sutton has garnered more than 728,000 likes so far. When photographer Shannon Morton shared a baby photo to her business's Facebook page, she had no idea that it would go viral. "It ...

Cleft palate speech assessment and hypernasality detection are critical components in the diagnosis and management of speech disorders, particularly in individuals affected by structural anomalies ...