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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash – Crystal and Joseph Ossello have had challenges growing their family. They have a son, Tucker, who is almost four but wanted to grow their world even more. After four years of ...

FORSYTH, Ill (WAND) May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. Anencephaly is a rare disease in which a baby does not fully develop their skull before birth. Virtually all babies die before birth or within ...

Anencephaly is a serious neural tube condition that affects a baby’s brain and skull development. It happens very early in ...

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, ...