MIDDLETOWN – Nneoma Obi was less than a month away from celebrating her 19th birthday when she fell into a coma in October 2015. Obi, who was in her second year at the University of Connecticut in October 2015 when she returned home to Middletown to attend a worship vigil for her late uncle in … Read more
DELHI TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) – Hamilton County’s first Safe Haven Baby Box was unveiled at a fire station in Delhi Township on Friday. Township administrators and firefighters held a ceremony at the fire station located at 697 Neeb Road. Delhi trustees approved the baby box through an emergency resolution at a meeting last year. The … Read more
When abortion is banned, women will no longer have this choice. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) State Street was filled with hundreds of people during the SLC Women’s March for Reproductive Rights and Access to Safe Abortions, Oct. 2, 2021. Saturday’s march was held in conjunction with other marches across the country. | … Read more
Dana Barker shares an update on her 85-year-old mother after she was found in critical condition at the Thomasville nursing home. THOMASVILLE, NC — We are learning more about the Triad nursing home at the center of an SBI investigation. Police said only three staff were caring for the 98 residents of the Pine Ridge … Read more
A charity is appealing for more volunteers to help provide starter hampers for new mums in need across Northamptonshire. Baby Basics Northampton was founded eight years ago to provide much needed supplies to disadvantaged families of new parents and babies in the county. The charity puts together Moses baskets filled with clothing and toiletries to … Read more
On paper, Texas’ Heartbeat Act — the most restrictive ban on abortion in the nation — doesn’t affect the nearly 200 pregnancy centers across the state because those facilities don’t perform abortions. abortions nor perform abortions. Yet those working at pro-life pregnancy centers have seen their clientele change since the law was passed in September, … Read more
Members of the University of Pretoria veterinary team take samples from a lion that contracted the coronavirus from its handlers at a zoo in Johannesburg.Credit…Marietjie Venter JOHANNESBURG – Lions at a South African zoo who caught the coronavirus from their handlers were sick for more than three weeks and continued to test positive for up … Read more
Telling obese women to lose weight before trying to have children through fertility treatment may be unnecessary, research suggests. NHS bosses often tell overweight women who are struggling to conceive to lose weight because carrying excess body fat is linked to reduced fertility. But now experts say losing weight might not make a difference, according … Read more
A mother said she was struggling to feed her two-month-old daughter, who was born prematurely after learning there was a nationwide shortage of special formula milk. Fiadh Rose weighed just 2lbs 12oz when she was delivered by Caesarean section at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby last November. Her mother Shannon Gadd, 25, used … Read more
COVID-19 did not cause a noticeable increase in fetal deaths in the United States in 2020, new research shows. A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at recent fetal death rates after at least 20 weeks of gestation and shows the fetal death rate has increased by less than … Read more