July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month, making it timely to discuss the entertainment industry’s portrayal of facial deformities. Many villains have facial deformities, ...

The Romans conquered the Celts, Christians converted the morbid holiday into All Saint s Day and, finally, Scottish and Irish immigrants brought Halloween to America. Now we merely celebrate the night ...

A facial deformity known as "Habsburg jaw," famously noted in the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian royals, can be attributed to inbreeding. According to a new study published in the Annals of ...

Cockayne syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective DNA repair mechanisms. People with the disease have much reduced life expectancy and suffer from facial deformities; ...

The "Habsburg jaw", a facial condition of the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives, can be attributed to inbreeding, according to new results published in the Annals of Human ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Three-year-old Betsaida Romero, who’s a native of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was born with severe facial deformities, missing her right eye and most of the right side of her face.

A face transplant is a rarely done surgery that uses donor facial tissues from someone who has died to replace all or part of a damaged face. It’s a complex procedure that requires multiple surgical ...

The shows follow individuals in urgent need of life-changing care, including those who are medically obese, and others who are seeing transformative facial reconstruction due to deformities ...

Orphaned girl, 13, with a severe facial deformity will have life-changing surgery thanks to generosity of online Tumblr community after it raised $10,000 for the operation in just one week A teenage ...

As part of efforts to ensure that Nigerians, especially the poor and vulnerable have access to free corrective surgeries for facial deformities, including facial clefts, facial tumor, locked Jaw, and ...

The 'Habsburg jaw,' a facial condition of the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives, can be attributed to inbreeding, according to new results. The "Habsburg jaw," a facial ...