BENNETT, Colo. (KDVR) - Five-year-old Kayla Hilbert has spent almost as many days in the hospital as she has in kindergarten. "I've had eight surgeries," she said. A recent one was the removal of a ...

Kayla Hilbert knows the walls of a hospital room better than those at school. The 5-year-old from Bennett, Colorado, was born with an abnormally small jaw and a cleft palate that made eating and ...

The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl ...

Some birth defects threaten a child's life from the moment they're born, especially when the defect blocks the baby's airway. Two-year-old McKenzie Sizemore, for example, was born with Stickler ...

A 10-year-old boy battling a rare congenital condition has to screw his jawbone forward every day so he can chew, talk - and even swallow normally. Brycen Wright was diagnosed with a the craniofacial ...

Hemifacial microsomia (HFM) is a complex congenital condition predominantly characterised by unilateral underdevelopment of the facial skeleton, particularly the mandible, often accompanied by ...

(CBS4)-- A family is sharing their story after their newborn baby boy had trouble breathing, leading to a rare diagnosis and surgery at just 11 days old. In January 2020, Kieran O'Keefe was born, and ...