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Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home in Switzerland to attend his only daughter’s wedding. But the week before the ceremony — on a Friday evening — Comfort said he found himself in “excruciating…

It was Labor Day weekend 2021 when Sara Walsh, who was 24 weeks pregnant with twins, began to experience severe lower-back pain.On Wednesday, a few days later, a maternal-fetal specialist near her home in Winter Haven,…

Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend.Her family is insured through her…

It was the first day of her family’s vacation in the San Juan Islands last June when Danielle Laskey, who was 26 weeks pregnant, thought she was leaking amniotic fluid.A registered nurse, Laskey called her OB-GYN back home…

Brenna Kearney was seven months pregnant in December 2019 when she experienced what she thought were bad flu symptoms.Her husband, Casey Trumble, drove her from their Chicago home to her OB-GYN’s office at Northwestern…

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.The lame-duck Congress is back in Washington with a long…

Elizabeth Melville and her husband are gradually hiking all 48 mountain peaks that top 4,000 feet in New Hampshire.“I want to do everything I can to stay healthy so that I can be skiing and hiking into my 80s — hopefully…

America’s covid-19 vaccination rate is around 60% for ages 12 and up. That’s not enough to reach so-called herd immunity, and in states like Missouri — where a number of counties have vaccination rates under 25% — hospitals are…