Having a baby is a miraculous and a beautiful journey but any birth defects can kill the joy, cause worry and anxiety. One birth defect is a cleft lip or palate or having a split on the upper lip or ...

Seven-month-old Adnan Saleh had just come out of surgery to fix a cleft lip. But suddenly his newly repaired mouth was filling with blood. The post-op nurses rushed to make sure he didn't choke.

Researchers have found a gene that causes cleft lip and palate in mice, according to a paper in the April 26 PNAS. The finding also suggests a causal link between smoking and cleft lip and palate in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There are several different types of facial clefts. The most common are cleft lip, ...

University of Iowa researchers conducted a study using frogs and fish to identify certain human genes are associated with causing cleft lip and/or palate when deleted. Clefting is a malformation in ...

Sue Kadrmas of Fargo says her husband was the first person to notice their daughter Tana's cleft palate. It happened during her birth. When Tana cut loose with her first newborn's squawk, Dan Kadrmas ...

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 ...

Those born with a cleft lip and/or cleft palate are subject to numerous complications, including chronic ear infections and hearing loss due to the eustachian tube not being able to drain fluid as ...