At birth, Chesni LaRoe faced a life-altering condition that had an easy solution. Born with a deformed skull, the toddler needed a specialized helmet called a DOC Band to reshape her head. However, ...

Prof Bolanle Olawuyi, of the Department of Social Sciences Education, University of Ilorin, has appealed to parents of disabled children against hiding them due to shame or stigma. Olawuyi made the ...

She breaks into tears as she narrates her experience to The Standard on Saturday. Parents with their children wait for screening at the Operation Smile camp at Nyeri Provincial Hospital early this ...

It was a grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide ...