We would like to extend  a big ‘THANK YOU’ to all our runners in the recent Flora women’s mini-marathon. These include;Anne O’Brien and the Rathangan runners, Karen O’Reilly, Michelle Connell, Louise Benson, Amber Baruch, Linda O’Crowley, Patricia Clifford, Louise Egar, Aoife Diamond, and those whose names are not readily to hand but who are equally near to our hearts for their efforts on behalf of the Association. If you have run on our...

The US Food and Drug Administration reported in Sept’06 that preliminary information from the North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry suggested that babies exposed to Lamictal during the first three months of pregnancy may have a higher chance of being born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.

Listen to this post, see below According to today’s Sunday Independent (May 27, 2007), Ireland will become the first country in Europe to implement mandatory folic acid food fortification next year.“The move will result in a 24 per cent drop in the number of babies born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly, doctors say. Ireland has one of the highest rates of neural tube defects in Europe with between 49 and 93 affected b...

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Listen to this post, see below The Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland annual conference took place in Dublin this week, and there were a multitude of interesting and insiteful presentations on all aspects of cleft and cleft treatment. We hope in the near future to make available summaries of some of the presentations here. Mr. Earley at the end of the conference handed over the chain of office as President to Bill Shaw, Professor o...

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