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Paying It Forward: After Giving Birth Prematurely, This Mother Left Her Job To Care For Babies In Need

Liza Smith
June 06, 2018
In 2012, Liz Kogler was pregnant with her first child and was not having the easiest pregnancy. Diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum — a pregnancy complication that comes with severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and dehydration — Kogler had to take multiple trips to the hospital for medications and intravenous fluids. But these were all minor inconveniences compared with what was about to come.
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Healthcare

Watch This: A Twist On The Doppler Effect Opens New Vistas On Tiny Hearts

P D Olson
May 25, 2018
Surgeons need steady hands. If you’re Wolfgang Arzt, you also need nerves of steel.
Arzt performs heart surgery on unborn babies, inserting a needle into the mother’s womb and carefully pushing it through a tiny valve in the fetus’ heart that’s just 2 millimeters in diameter, or about as wide as a pinhead. Then he perforates the valve. “If I go 1 or 2 millimeters too far, I tear off the vessel and everything is over,” he says from his office at Kepler University Hospital in Austria, where as head of prenatal care he has overseen more than 140 such procedures.
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Neonatal Medicine

Comeback Kid: Will Bolick Has Been Fighting His Entire Life, And He’s Only 5 Years Old

Liza Smith
January 11, 2018
Every minute, approximately 255 babies are born around the world. Most of them arrive full-term at 37 to 40 weeks’ gestation. However, 10 percent are born prematurely and need additional care to survive.
In 2012, Brittany and Scott Bolick were expecting their first child. Years prior, Brittany had uterine cancer, so they were aware that the pregnancy was going to be high-risk. But they still expected her to carry the baby past the 32-week mark.
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