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The parents of a 12-year-old girl from the New Orleans area are overjoyed that their daughter has recovered from a near-death coronavirus infection.

Five Chicago-area children with health challenges are leaving Thursday for an unforgettable trip.

The 2017 death of Olivia Gant, a 7-year-old whose “bucket list” of final wishes evoked heart-touching news stories, wasn’t the result of multiple diseases – it was a murder carried out by her mother, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday.

A Colorado mother who sought donations to cover medical treatments for her daughter and promoted the girl’s “bucket list” of dreams to fulfill before she died has been indicted on a murder charge in the 7-year-old’s death that was previously believed to be from a terminal disease. In a grand jury indictment revealed Monday, Kelly Renee Turner, 41, also known...

A North Texas man police believe abducted an underage girl was arrested after she told workers at a fast food restaurant that she was held against her will and sexually assaulted, police say.

The flu in Illinois has become widespread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and area hospitals are warning parents to take extra precautions.

The flu in Illinois has become widespread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and area hospitals are warning parents to take extra precautions. Lauren Petty reports.

The Chinese scientist who says he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies veered off a traditional career path, keeping much of his research secret in pursuit of a larger goal — making history. He Jiankui’s outsized aspirations began to take shape in 2016, the year after another team of Chinese researchers sparked global debate with the revelation that they...

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the...

One-year-old Ayla Esler burst into a smile after hearing sound for the first time Tuesday, thanks to cochlear implants installed in the toddler’s ears last month at the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jahi McMath, an Oakland teen who was at the center of a nationwide brain death debate, has died, her family says.

Show me “smiles.” That’s what Kanye West had on his face during a duel with his in-laws, the Kardashians, for the premiere of the fourth season of “Celebrity Family Feud,” which aired Sunday on ABC.

A little Southern California superhero – who would show up to his chemo treatments and to his classroom dressed as different Marvel and DC Comics heroes — is still fighting to stay alive. He’s also fighting back against his own Kryptonite — a tumor — and when he dies he will keep fighting, donating his tumor to science to help...

Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled Monday against the parents of a terminally ill toddler who sought permission to take him to Italy for medical treatment that lower U.K. courts blocked in favor of suspending life support. The parents of 23-month-old Alfie Evans have been engaged in a protracted legal fight with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital over his care. They asked...

The number of frozen eggs and embryos a Cleveland fertility center says were lost in a tank failure has doubled since the incident was first reported earlier this month, NBC News reported. The hospital is now blaming human error for the loss of 4,000 eggs and embryos, and it told nearly 1,000 patients that it is unlikely any egg or...

A Mississippi girl has died after her brother allegedly shot her in the head because she wouldn’t hand over the controller of a video game. WCBI-TV reported Sunday that Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said the girl is dead.

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Many of them had already endured their share of heartache. Some had been trying for years to get pregnant, suffering through multiple miscarriages. Others had undergone cancer treatments that destroyed their fertility. Now, hundreds of these women and couples have learned that the eggs and embryos they froze for eventual use in starting or expanding a family may have been...