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Journey for Jensen (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Tomorrow is going to be a pretty busy day for us. We have to go to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh for Jensen's 6 month cleft appointment at the Cleft Palate Clinic there. Hopefully the appointment will not take too long. I hope they don't make us suffer with the audiology department again. It's too much for Jensen to go through in one day. He gets so worked up and irritable. Poor little guy! Jensen...
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Pampered Pregger & Beyond Blog (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Drinking water disinfected by chlorine while pregnant may increase the risk of having children with heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health. This finding, based on an analysis of nearly 400,000 infants in Taiwan, is the first that links by-products of water chlorination to three specific birth defects....
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AELEOPE (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
I am a club foot when it comes to singing. A club foot with a cleft palate. Yeah, I know... and the lyrics to songs just stick in my brain and swirl there. Construction work is great because on a rooftop with air guns rapping and compressors running and a breeze blowing, I can sing and sing and sing. Being the big guy on the crew and out in the open air, nobody complains too vehemently, though I will...
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ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Woman 18 weeks pregnant discovers her “unborn baby may lose both its feet.” Obviously, women have aborted later for less severe conditions. (I’m reminded of a third trimester abortion due to a cleft-palate diagnosis.) Operate while still in the womb and there were risks to both mother and child. Do nothing and their daughter [...]
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
It took doctors more than 12 years to figure out that Karen Le Clair's cleft palate was harming her hearing.
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Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
AN MP with a cleft palate will this week attempt to introduce a change in the law that could lead to fewer abortions on the grounds of disability.
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Desicritics (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
I have only watched the reconstruction surgery for a cleft palate and cleft lip twice, and it remains in my memory as if these occurred just yesterday. During my first time to watch I stood quietly, in awe, with some trepidation, observing my father do reconstructive surgery in the hospital in Taxila, India. I was 7 years old. The year was 1939. My father, Dr. Stuart Bergsma, a surgeon, performed...
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Magic Statistics (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
Margaret Somerville of McGill University drops a bombshell in an e-mail to Suzanne Fortin and posted at Suzanne’s Big Blue Wave blog. The case in question involved a married couple - man and woman - who had conceived naturally, the woman was 34 weeks pregnant and the scan showed the baby had a cleft palate. [...]
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Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
U.S. scientists studying zebrafish have discovered a genetic mechanism that leads to development of cleft palate. ...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Edwards is out with a new ad on healthcare. (CNN) — John Edwards took a familiar element of his stump speech to the Iowa airwaves Friday. In the ad, titled “Voice”, the former North Carolina senator repeats the story of James Lowe, a man with a cleft palate who “had no voice for 50 years,” because [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 22/11/2007
The 20-year-old parents of a baby born with a cleft palate have been charged with second-degree murder after authorities say the child starved...
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KOMO - News - Local (Free subscription) | 22/11/2007
The 20-year-old parents of a baby born with a cleft palate have been charged with second-degree murder after authorities say the child starved to death.
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El Nuevo Pantano (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
Norm is skeptical of the possible role played by Marx’s carbuncles in the development of his thought on alienation. Reading the post put me in mind of Jürgen Habermas and his cleft palate. He opened his Commemorative Lecture on receipt of the Kyoto Prize in 2004 by considering the possible influence of his disability on [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/05/2007
He was a 2-month-old orphan in a remote Russian village. She was a 56-year-old pediatrician from San Francisco. She knew the boy needed her. She didn't know she needed him. "He had the most severe cleft lip and cleft palate I had ever seen,"...
