A young boy's wish to just get through a day without strange stares and ridicule is about to come true. In a small town in South Africa, Victor Nwadike was born without a fully-formed ear and little ...

Being born without a fully-formed ear impacts not only hearing, but it can diminish a child's self esteem. But, thanks to a pioneering new procedure and a mom with a big heart, kids born without an ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Lilliana Parrales was born with facial differences that her family feared would be subject to bullying. But cutting-edge surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...

Five-year-old Luca Vacchio, from Levittown, was born without a left ear, so Dr. Nicholas Bastidas, a plastic surgeon at Cohen Children's Medical Center, made him a new one using cadaver tissue.

According to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, one in every 8,000 to 10,000 births in the United States result in one of two congenital malformations of the ear: microtia (the child is ...