It was a hot summer morning in KSA. I was still waiting for the next patient for consultation when my pretty Philippino nurse gracefully walked into my chamber and said I was wanted by the director of ...

Featuring 100 stunning portraits of individuals affected by cleft — each accompanied by a deeply personal story — the tour challenges the way society sees and understands the cleft experience. Rather ...

Learning your baby has a cleft lip or cleft palate can feel overwhelming. Many parents worry about feeding, speech, surgeries, and what life will look like for their child. But cleft lip and cleft ...

Dr Stephanie van Eeden on a UK-wide research programme that is aimed at young adults. Plus a letter from Kenneth Low With reference to the article by Hugh Davies about his experiences of having been ...

Orofacial clefts (OC; cleft lips and/or palates) require intense care immediately after birth and can lead to lifelong difficulties with eating and speaking, leading to social marginalization, ...

Plans to scrap specialist training could leave patients with permanent speech difficulties and problems with eating Laura Donnelly is the Health Editor for The Telegraph, leading award-winning ...

Pudendal neuralgia is a condition that causes pain, discomfort, or numbness in your pelvis or genitals. It happens when a major nerve in the lower body is damaged or irritated, and it can make it hard ...

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 ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...

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 ...

Biologists have discovered that disruptions in transfer RNA function can lead to the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, ...