A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...

Last night I made the trek down to beautiful, fragrant Sunnyside for the first of two state Department of Health listening sessions on anencephaly, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the ...

An anencephalic baby challenges our definitions of life and humanity. Born with most of the brain missing, there is just enough brain stem to keep them alive for a few days. It is doubtful that they ...

All right, folks, I'm way overdue on checking back in with this. I first wrote about anencephaly more than a year ago, when the state Health Department issued a news release on the unusually high ...

The day before Mardi Gras, Brittany and Chris Vidrine got exciting news — Brittany was pregnant. They would be adding a third child to their family. But when she went in for a 16-week checkup, ...