Innovative cleft palate repair
Over 100,000 children in developing countries are born with cleft palates and lips, most of which will never be repaired due to lack of trained medical personnel. Roberto Flores, M.D., is the medical director of a groundbreaking technological resource that has the potential to train surgeons in developing countries to perform cleft palate and lip repair. Smile Train now hosts a free Web-based inte.... (Source: Sound Medicine)
Source: Sound Medicine - November 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news
Cleft Gene Bank to welcome a Royal visitor
The world’s largest ever cleft lip and palate research programme was launched last year and HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, as Patron of the Healing Foundation, will visit the Healing Foundation Cleft Gene Bank and Birth Cohort Study at the University of Bristol today, Wednesday 23 October. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - October 23, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Lawsuit Calls Janssen's Topamax a "Pharmaceutical Equivalent of a Drive-by Shooting”
A Pennsylvania mother blames Topamax for her son’s cleft palate and lip and claims Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals negligently failed to inform patients about its risks until the FDA ordered stronger warnings in 2011. (Source: PharmaManufacturing.com)
Source: PharmaManufacturing.com - October 16, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
I was born with a cleft palate - but it didn't stop me growing up to be a Pussycat Doll
Carmit Bachar, 38 suffered from cleft lip and palate, a disability which meant she had annual surgery from the age of six months until she was 16. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biology Conspires Against Women Having It All
Time keeps on ticking into the future but our parenting time is limited.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - September 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. R. Bruns, M.D. Tags: Relationships ADHD Apert Syndrome assisted reproductive technologies autism biological clock Birth defects children cleft lip and palate cosmopolitian Down Syndrome career Dwarfism england journal of medicine female fertility f Source Type: news
Special Olympics: How I become a ‘believer’ over this very special summer
By Marc Bernard Ackerman, DMD, MBA, FADPD, FACD, Director of Orthodontics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Marc Ackerman
Every September, I’m taken back to the fourth grade when Mrs. Henderson passed out black and white marble-colored journals to our class. She explained that over the course of the year we were going to keep a record of all our important fourth grade memories. Our first assignment was to answer the question: what was the most meaningful thing you did this summer?
All these years later, I can’t remember what I wrote, but I do remember Mrs. Henderson being underwhelmed by the responses she saw. One...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 28, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: All posts Down syndrome Societal Issues Sports & exercise children with special health care needs dental health dental helath for kids with special needs marc Ackerman Orthodontics Source Type: news
French bulldog with cleft lip helps kids be okay with facial defects
Lentil has double sided cleft in hard/soft palate, lip, nose; Now works as an "ambassadog" for patients with cranial/facial defects (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - July 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Geneticists Solve Mystery Of EEC Syndrome's Variable Severity In Children
By identifying a protein that acts as a genetic modifier, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved the mystery of why some infants are born with a grave syndrome consisting of cleft palate and major deformities of the skin and limbs, while other infants bearing the same predisposing genetic mutation bear little or no sign of the illness, called EEC. EEC stands for "Ectodactyly, Ectodermal dysplasia, Clefting syndrome." It is rare in its full-blown form, although individual aspects of the associated pathology, such as cleft palate, are more common... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cleft Palate Source Type: news
CSHL geneticists solve mystery of EEC Syndrome's variable severity in children
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) By identifying a protein that acts as a genetic modifier, scientists have solved the mystery of why some infants are born with a grave syndrome consisting of cleft palate and major deformities of the skin and limbs, while other infants with the same predisposing genetic mutation bear little or no sign of the illness, called EEC. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Herbal Medicine FAQs
The American Herbalists Guild is a non-profit, educational organization that promotes clinical herbalism as a viable profession rooted in ethics, competency, diversity, and freedom of practice. The AHG supports access to herbal medicine for all and advocates excellence in herbal education.The following questions and answers provide an overview of some of the most frequently asked questions.WHAT IS AN HERB?An herb is any plant or plant part used for its culinary or therapeutic value. Many of the world ' s herbal traditions also include fungi, mineral and animal substances in their practices.WHAT IS HERBAL MEDICINE?Herbal me...
Source: American Herbalists Guild - An Association of Herbal Practitioners - June 2, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: admin Source Type: news
Herbal Medicine FAQs
The American Herbalists Guild is a non-profit, educational organization that promotes clinical herbalism as a viable profession rooted in ethics, competency, diversity, and freedom of practice. The AHG supports access to herbal medicine for all and advocates excellence in herbal education.The following questions and answers provide an overview of some of the most frequently asked questions.WHAT IS AN HERB?An herb is any plant or plant part used for its culinary or therapeutic value. Many of the world ' s herbal traditions also include animal and mineral substances in their practices.WHAT IS HERBAL MEDICINE?Herbal medicine ...
Source: American Herbalists Guild - An Association of Herbal Practitioners - June 2, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: admin Source Type: news
How'd that work: Do pesticides cause birth defects?
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement that outlines the harmful effects of pesticides on early fetal development. In 2009, Paul Winchester, M.D., released a study that looked at 30 million Indiana births from 1996 to 2002. According to Dr. Winchester, babies conceived in April, May and June have higher rates of birth defects such as Down syndrome, cleft palate and.... (Source: Sound Medicine)
Source: Sound Medicine - May 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news
Personal experiences of cleft lip and palate needed for research study
Parents of children with cleft lip and/or palate, or people who were born with a cleft lip and/or palate themselves are being asked to consider taking part in a new research study led by the University’s School of Oral and Dental Sciences to develop an online resource for families and individuals affected by this condition. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - April 23, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Maternal PAH Exposure Linked to Higher Infant Cleft RiskMaternal PAH Exposure Linked to Higher Infant Cleft Risk
Pregnant women exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at work may have a higher risk of having babies with cleft lip. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Baby Jasper baffles doctors by being born with never-before-seen condition
Jasper Holt, from Barrow, Cumbria, was born with a cleft palate, conjoined kidneys, a small jaw and cysts in his brain. At a loss to diagnose him, doctors have dubbed his condition 'Jasper's syndrome'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
