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More women than ever are freezing their eggs and delaying parenthood
Inside Boston IVF’s “Cryo Bio and Storage” room in Waltham, Massachusetts, are thousands of dreams — in the form of eggs, embryos and sperm — kept alive at a temperature of 196 degrees below zero. Those dreams belong to families hoping for a chance at parenthood down the road. Katy Daly, 32, who works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston,…
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Vietnam war veteran from Mass. scammed out of $20,000
An undercover sting operation at a senior living home in Everett, Massachusetts, led to an arrest after a 77-year-old Vietnam War veteran was scammed out of $20,000. Purple Heart recipient Charles Fagone wants to warn others not to make the same mistake he did when he received an email last week stating that he owed different amounts of money to…
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Bride shares magic of butterfly release at Cape Cod wedding
When Amy Rose Perry got married in June on Cape Cod, she had monarch butterflies released to honor the memory of her late father. But instead of flying away, they landed on her — a moment of magic that’s gone viral.
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Wounds of war: Young children from Gaza recovering in Boston
Young children impacted by Israel’s war in Gaza are in Boston as they recover from trauma. Aser Abumuhaisen, 5, is making strides learning how to get around in a wheelchair. His leg had to be amputated below the knee. In January, a bomb hit Aser’s home in Gaza, killing a dozen of his family members, including his parents. “He...
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‘One of the happiest moments of my life': Recipient of pig kidney transplant released from hospital
Richard Slayman of Weymouth was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after receiving the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant.
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New call for breast milk donors: ‘A community of moms looking out for moms'
During the new year the nonprofit Mother’s Milk Bank Northeast sees a drop in donations, and right now they’re looking for donor moms to donate breast milk. The nonprofit primarily services pre-term and medically fragile babies in the NICU, as well as families in the community. There are strict requirements for moms to donate, including a prescreening, health screening...
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24 years after Cold Storage fire, sons of ‘Worcester 6' work at city's fire department
It’s been 24 years since the Worcester Cold Storage warehouse fire killed six firefighters from the Massachusetts city’s department. All these years later, their legacies live on through some of their children, who are now part of the Worcester Fire Department themselves. NBC10 Boston spoke to one son ahead of Sunday’s somber milestone, who says Dec. 3, 1999, is a…
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Is this Salem seafood restaurant haunted?
Turner’s Seafood in Salem, Massachusetts, is home to authentic New England style seafood and paranormal activity. The restaurant sits on land with a history dating back to the 1600s. It was Bridget Bishop’s apple orchard, and to this day, some guests at the restaurant report the smell of apples. Bishop was the first to be hung in the Salem...
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Brain disorder affecting sight is a ‘hidden epidemic,' experts say
A local mom says her son’s cerebral-cortical visual impairment went undiagnosed by experts for years, until she took him to Watertown’s Perkins School for the Blind. Perkins School for the Blind is working to spread awareness for what it calls a hidden epidemic: Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). Senior director of the CVI Center at Perkins, Ilse Willems, says that...
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Assistance dog helps students build social-emotional skills in Framingham High School
As students return to classrooms in Massachusetts, one Framingham school is showing success in a program that helps build academic and social-emotional skills for students. Framingham High School offers a program called Resiliency For Life. The program helps about 60 students in ninth through 12th grade through emotional challenges to achieve academic success. “Emotionally we see students who go from…
