In 2011, Jeremy Shipp and his wife welcomed their son Henry, who was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate. Navigating their child through surgeries to repair the split in his upper lip and the roof ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

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 ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is ...

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 ...

The annual Cleft Con bring those with facial differences together to share their experiences and make everyone’s life better. Instagram/Smile Train I am a retired professional nurse and nurse ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia Beach family is celebrating their son’s new smile thanks to a therapy now being offered at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters to repair cleft lip and palate.

A clip of a very "special puppy" with a cleft palate has gone viral on TikTok with more than 1.8 million views. In the video post to @clefttedteddy, Teddy the golden retriever puppy can be seen ...

Sergeant Pepper the kitten's touching adoption story helped Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society earn a grant from the nonprofit Petco Love Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...