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New Mouse Model Could Lead To New Treatments And Prevention Strategies For Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate In Humans
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College used genetic methods to successfully repair cleft lips in mice embryos specially engineered for the study of cleft lip and cleft palate. The research breakthrough may show the way to prevent or treat the conditions in humans...

Risk For Two Birth Defects Affected By Overall Quality Of Pregnant Woman's Diet
The overall quality of a pregnant woman's diet is linked with risk for two types of serious birth defects, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown. In the study, women who ate better before and during pregnancy gave birth to fewer infants with malformations of the brain and spinal cord, or orofacial clefts, such as cleft lip and cleft palate...

Two Brothers Born With Forms Of Cleft Lip And Palate Raises Awareness Of Condition And Risk Factors
Carter and Mason Osborne have a lot in common. Not only are they brothers who love to laugh, they also share one unique characteristic; they were born with forms of cleft lip and palate. Fortunately, the Osborne's have a team of nationally-recognized experts in the Cleft Lip and Palate Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital to help with their sons' overall treatment and care...

Cries Of Two-Month-Old Infants With Cleft Lip And Palate Predict Language Development
An infant child's cries are his or her way of communicating with the world. However, the baby's cries have more information to communicate beyond saying "I'm hungry," or "I'm tired." The complexity of melody and rhythm within a cry can be an early indicator of a child's pre-speech development...

Pre-Natal Diagnosis, Timely Treatment Key To Success For Growing Number Of Newborns With Clefts
Affecting more than 7,000 U.S. babies each year, cleft lip and/or cleft palate are the second most common birth defect, the cause of which continues to mystify scientists despite growing evidence of a complex interplay of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors...

Technology Used To Assess How People View Faces With A Cleft Lip And Palate
The impact of physical attractiveness on social communication is a truth universally acknowledged. It is not surprising, therefore, that individuals with a cleft lip and palate have experienced social isolation and poor self-esteem. But how people really see faces affected by this anomaly has not been studied...

Corticosteroid Use During Pregnancy Not Linked To Facial Clefts In Infants
Corticosteroid use during pregnancy not linked to facial clefts in infants The use of corticosteroids during pregnancy does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of orofacial clefts in infants, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...

Psychosocial Adjustment Of Adolescents With Cleft Lip And Palate
Adolescence is generally viewed as a socially and psychologically challenging period of development. For young people with cleft lip, cleft palate, or both, these challenges can be magnified. How their parents react can add another factor into these children's outlooks...

Migraine, Epilepsy Drug Topamax May Cause Newborn Cleft Palate
The FDA has warned that the drug prescribed for epilepsy named Topamax (topiramate) should not be used by women who are pregnant or plan on childbearing, due to a very high risk of offspring bearing cleft lip and palate defects occuring during the first trimester. Topiramate treats epilepsy in children and adults and was originally marketed as an anticonvulsant...

Dental Procedures For Cleft Lip And Palate Patients Bring Together Function And Looks
It may look the same, but it doesn't chew the same. Different dental treatment options for bilateral cleft lip and palate may result in similar aesthetic appearance, but they produce definite differences in jaw function. People with clefts of the lip and palate often have dental anomalies as well. The number, shape, and position of teeth can be affected...

Prenatal Knowledge Of Cleft Lip/Palate Shows Little Advantage Over Birth Discovery
Many expectant parents look forward to routine ultrasounds as their first opportunity to "see" their baby. But the ultrasound can reveal that the fetus has unexpected medical conditions, such as a diagnosis of cleft lip and palate. Despite the emotional distress the diagnosis can bring, it can also offer the opportunity to prepare for the child's future needs...

Prenatal Knowledge Of Cleft Lip/Palate Shows Little Advantage Over Birth Discovery
Many expectant parents look forward to routine ultrasounds as their first opportunity to "see" their baby. But the ultrasound can reveal that the fetus has unexpected medical conditions, such as a diagnosis of cleft lip and palate. Despite the emotional distress the diagnosis can bring, it can also offer the opportunity to prepare for the child's future needs...

2010 AAO-HNSF Miniseminars: Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010
The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, convened September 26-29, 2010, in Boston, MA...

Researchers Find Mechanism Behind Cleft Palate Development
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new mechanism that explains why a certain gene mutation causes craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), a disorder that causes cleft palate and other malformations in the face, brain, and skeleton. Cleft palate affects one of every 1,000 newborns. The research is published in the September 15 issue of Genes & Development...

Mental Retardation Research Published In Nature
Malfunction of a protein has been linked to a form of mental retardation that affects up to one out of every 500 males, says Nasser K. Yaghi, a Texas A&M University magna cum laude biology graduate who was selected to participate in a medical research project at Harvard that has been published in the journal Nature...