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 ...

John Blankenship will have another surgery next summer to close the hole in the roof of his mouth. His family is so grateful ...

For children with cleft palate, corrective treatment typically requires years of complex surgical operations for most of their childhood. But a relatively new surgical strategy developed at University ...

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 ...

Cleft lip and palate surgery represents one of the most common paediatric interventions for congenital craniofacial malformations, and its successful outcome is critically dependent on effective ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...