HUDSON — Despite the Common Council’s Thanksgiving Eve rejection, Mayor Kamal Johnson’s proposed $19.6 million budget went into effect Monday. The budget, which raises property taxes by 3.9% and uses ...

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BOSTON — It was an ordinary moment, but it meant everything to the father of a little boy with the rarest of diseases. Last month, in the final seconds of a Sunday night football game, an exultant ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

New research has found a surprising physical reaction when hearing a baby's cry. Scientists found that hearing an infant in distress activates the autonomic nervous system—the body's unconscious ...

ALABAMA (WHNT) — A law taking effect in Alabama next week is meant to make purchasing menstrual and maternity products a little cheaper. About 16% of Alabama families live below the poverty line, ...

New research reveals that tiny amounts of PFAS—widely known as "forever chemicals"—cross the placenta and breast milk to alter infants' developing immune systems, potentially leaving lasting imprints ...

Agnes is stuck. She works and lives in the same sleepy New England college town where she went to grad school, living in a big, drafty-looking rental house. She’s got an enviable teaching position at ...

YPSILANTI, MI — Of Jade Ortiz’s four children, the birth of her youngest was the quickest — and most action-packed. A little more than 10 minutes after Ortiz, 24, called her fiancé to say her water ...

ATLANTA — The family of Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, said her baby boy has arrived. According to her mother, April Newkirk, the infant, ...

When Rosalie McLane was pregnant with her first child, she envisioned a serene vaginal delivery. Her husband, Jake would play guitar and sing worship music to soothe her through labor. But like many ...