It can be difficult for any parent to hear that their new or soon-to-be-born baby has a cleft lip, cleft palate, or other skull or facial anomaly. While these are among the most common birth anomalies ...

Certain types of ear malformations in infants can be treated by a simple and inexpensive technique—using paper clips to build custom splints to mold the shape of the growing ear, reports a study in ...

Cochlear implantation has become an established intervention for sensorineural hearing loss, yet its application in patients with congenital inner ear anomalies poses unique challenges. Malformations ...

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), physicians can identify soft-tissue defects that contribute to hearing loss in children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of ...

First linked to mutations in the CHD7 gene in 2004, CHARGE syndrome is a rare genetic disorder occurring in approximately 1 in 8,500 to 15,000 births. According to the National Institute of Health ...

Affecting about 1 to 5 of every 10,000 babies born globally, microtia is a rare disorder encompassing a spectrum of congenital ear malformations or even absence of the auricle, the visible part of the ...

For infants with congenital malformations of the ear, a treatment system called EarWell can gently reshape the ear--avoiding the pain and cost of later surgery, reports a study in the March issue of ...