Cleft Palate

MP bids to outlaw abortions for club foot or cleft palate

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008

ABORTIONS carried out because babies have a club foot or cleft palate could be banned under plans to be put before MPs later this month.

Thomas Malthus Redux

Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

Time on your hands? Wanna spend a few fruitless minutes twirling in a pointless intellectual circle? Here ya go... Malthus was born in 1766 with a harelip and a cleft palate. He studied mathematics, history, and philosophy at Cambridge. Partly because of his speech defect, he decided to go into the church and live a somewhat reclusive life in the country. One of the most tranquil and cheerful of men,...

Burn Management, Speech Therapy and Microsurgery

So No Child Must Wait (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008

Attendees also discussed burn management and learned more about Nepal’s successful speech camps for cleft palate patients. The last day of the conference was dedicated to a microsurgery workshop, which included basics about micro instruments and magnification. Young plastic surgeons from Bangladesh, India, and many young surgeons and medical officers from different hospitals in Kathmandu participated....

Happy Anniversary, Sweetie!

Journey for Jensen (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008

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...

Carnival of Breastfeeding: Pumping It Up and Cleft Palate

Breastfeeding 1-2-3 (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008

Welcome to the June Carnival of Breastfeeding: Pumping It Up! Check out all the contributions on the topic of pumping and hand expression at the end of this post. Here at Breastfeeding 1-2-3 I am pleased to share this guest post from Holly, whose son has benefited from her exclusive pumping over the last 10 [...]

The Obama Drones Smear the McCaines (or) Is It Comedy?

The Pink Flamingo (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

TELL OBAMA TO STOP SMEARING CINDY MCCAIN! "... "When you see a child anywhere, say a child that doesn't have food or a child with a cleft palate who's been kept in a back room because the family is embarrassed or whatever it may be, it takes you back to really what's basic and what's really important,"..." Cindy McCain If you start going through the blogs, you will discover that there are a tremendous...

Is Tap Water Safe For Expectant Mothers?

Pampered Pregger & Beyond Blog (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008

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....

Insights into Velopharyngeal Dysfunction

Newswise (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008

For infants with cleft palate, properly timed, individualized surgery to repair the defect can prevent lifelong speech and other problems resulting from velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD), according to a special article in the May issue of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. a leading provider of information...

Singing Along With Singing... Or Not...

AELEOPE (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

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...

Plastic Surgeon: Boob jobs totally cure eating disorders!

The-F-Word.org (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008

The Toronto Star has a story today about the rise of teens getting plastic surgery and we’re not talking about to fix a cleft palate or birth defect or other problems that pose a significant health risk. No, today’s teens are getting nose jumps, ear pinning and even breast implants. Dr. Frederick Lukash, a New [...]

Choosing life and limb

ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008

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 [...]

Babies Exposed to Chlorinated Water at Risk of Heart Problems, Cleft Palate or Major Brain Defects

cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008

Would you like some vaccines with that? How about a free mobile phone? Via: Telegraph: Babies born in areas where drinking water is heavily disinfected with chlorine are at double the risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects, according to a new study. Expectant mothers can expose themselves to the higher risk by drinking the water, [...]

Tap Water Causes Heart Problems and Brain Defects

Public Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008

If you drink water disinfected by chlorine while pregnant, it may increase your child’s risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects. The finding is based on an analysis of nearly 400,000 infants in Taiwan. It is the first study that links by-products of water chlorination to three specific birth defects. Water chlorination is widely used to disinfect drinking water and reduce the occurrence...

• Alert Over Chlorine in Tap Water and Birth Defects - Red Orbit

Is Tap Water Safe For Expectant Mothers?

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008

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.

Babies exposed to chlorinated water at risk of heart problems

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

Babies born in areas where drinking water is heavily disinfected with chlorine are at double the risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects, according to a new study.