Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Dubai Duty Free Foundation has announced a donation of US$1.5 million to Smile Train, the world’s largest charity dedicated to repairing cleft lip and cleft palate deformities in children. The announcement, which coincides with the duty free industry’s ‘Miles for Smiles’ charity run in Dubai this past Saturday, is the largest...
In The Faith (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Niger (MNN) -- As CURE International prepares to open its 11th clinic in September 2010, Executive Director in Niger Leron Lehman asks you to pray for God's blessing over this project. "I think having God's favor and Him preparing the way and the path for us is gonna be very important." The clinic will provide diagnosis and treatment for disabled children and their families, treating disorders...
Saint Mary Magdalen, Brighton, UK (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
(LifeSiteNews.com) The British government has gone to court to prevent the publication of statistics on abortions of children with mild disabilities like cleft palates and club foot. The Department of Health has asked the High Court to overturn a Freedom of Information Act ruling that gave the Information Tribunal permission to publish the information. The Information Tribunal is a government body...
Little Lou's Knits & Nags (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
My Grandad (1927-1986) Dear Grandad, Today would have been, should have been your 82nd birthday, but you left us far too early. I'm thinking of you today as I do most days. More time has passed since we've been apart than we ever spent together but the void you left is unfillable. Thank you for playing a leading part in making my childhood a happy one. Because of you I could write my own name before...
newsunwrapped.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Manny Pacquiao-Krista Ranillo love affair gossips won’t stop! We received another information from a showbiz insider that reportedly, Krista Ranillo received Php 2M from Manny Pacquiao for her sister’s operation and to start a family restaurant business in the USA. Krista Ranillo’s younger sister named Trixie has cleft palate and is scheduled to undergo operation. [...]
Postcard Mania (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Louis William Wain was born in Clerkenwell, Central London on 5 August 1860. His mother was French - hence the name Louis and his father was a textile trader and embroiderer. Louis was the eldest child of six, and the only male. Due his having a cleft lip, his parents kept him away from school [...]
Nipper News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6556815/Government-seeks-secrecy-on-cleft-palate-abortions.html The Government has launched a High Court bid to maintain secrecy over the abortion of babies with cleft palate and club feet. In an extraordinary move, the Department of Health is taking the Government’s own Information Tribunal to court to overturn a landmark Freedom of Information Act...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
[ Attachment(s) from Bashir Mahmud Ellias included below] শিশুদের শ্রেষ্ট ভিটামিন ক্যালকেরিয়া ফস ফরিকা ( Calcarea Phosphorica ) নামক ঔষধটি...
India eNews (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Megan Mylan, the director of Oscar winning documentary 'Smile Pinki' who is here for the ongoing Mumbai International Children's Film Festival, says she is more fascinated by reality than fiction. The filmmaker says her movie on the Indian village girl with a cleft lip was compiled after seeing 40 hours of footage shot.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Nov. 6 (PNA) - Australian and New Zealand doctors are set to arrive here next week to perform reconstructive surgery on children with cleft palate, harelip and other facial deformities which were either inborn or sustained during the calamitous typhoon "Pepeng".
Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In Western Pennsylvania, cattle died and calves were born in deformed eyes after their mothers drank contaminated water.So what about the ten calves? Four were stillborn, one was born with a cleft lip and five were born without pupils in their eyes. There were never any problems like this before drilling started. Pictures and more information in Green Man Blog.
A Touch Of Rosemary (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today was a vacation day for me and I spent the first half at the DMV with my 16-year-old, who is now the proud owner of a driver’s permit. Next, it was on to the post office to pick up a friend’s mail (for the record, I spent 25 minutes in line.) My final stop of the day was the pediatric dentist’s office, where I learned that the four year old’s permanent molars are starting...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Drugs to treat urinary infections could cause heart, brain problems : Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections with birth defects. Reassuringly, the most-used antibiotics in early pregnancy — penicillins — appear to be the safest. ... The new study is the first large analysis of antibiotic use in pregnancy....
Music Maza (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Download image as wallpaper Besides being hailed as the most beautiful woman in the world, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has always been synonymous to God's eternal answer to beauty, grace and gorgeousness. After having been crowned as Miss World, Ash (as she is fondly called), has now been announced as the first Goodwill Ambassador for Smile Train, the world's largest cleft charity. As a part of this Ambassadorship,...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
MUMBAI: Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need. The former Miss World, who ...
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julieadam | 09/03/2009
Global Medical Barbados, providing International Medical Services that save clients up to 75% on elective surgeries offers free reconstructive surgery for American, British, and Canadian children as well as those living in the Caribbean with cleft lips , palettes, and noses. Surgical care is available through the Charitable Foundation of Global Medical Barbados. Says Mr. Grafton Marshall, Chairman...
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