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An ultrasound became much more than a picture for one woman. NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi has what’s up.

When an expecting San Diego mother visited her doctor’s office for her 20-week ultrasound, she was hoping for a glimpse of her future daughter. She got that and also something more: a special connection to her past.

A jury awarded $101 million to the mother of a severely brain-damaged boy who sued a Chicago-area hospital for medical malpractice, but an agreement between the parties cut the amount to $50 million, a lawyer said Tuesday. Attorneys told a Cook County jury that medical staff at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park ignored ultrasound results that indicated the...

Danielle Fishel and Jensen Karp’s baby boy has arrived and the couple is facing the most trying time of their lives. The actress and her husband welcomed their first child together on June 24, a month early. On Monday, the new mom announced her son Adler Lawrence Karp’s arrival when she shared a photo of his nursery and the newborn...

Ryan Lochte and his wife Kayla Rae Reid welcomed their second child, a baby girl, on Monday, June 17. The overjoyed parents announced the news on Instagram. In the picture, the Olympic gold-medalist cradles their newborn as their eldest child Caiden Zane Lochte meets his little sister. “Miracle #2 witnessed. Liv Rae Lochte was born today at 10:20am. 7lbs 8oz....

The Louisiana House of Representatives passed an abortion ban on a 79-23 vote Wednesday that would prohibit women from terminating a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat has been detected, NBC News reports. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has indicated that he would break with his party and sign the ban if it crosses his desk. The Senate already approved the...

A wave of state abortion bans has set off speculation: What would happen if Roe v. Wade, the ruling establishing abortion rights nationwide, were overturned? Although far from a certainty, even with increased conservative clout on the Supreme Court, a reversal of Roe would mean abortion policy would revert to the states, and many would be eager to impose bans....

From his eyes to his immune system, astronaut Scott Kelly’s body sometimes reacted strangely to nearly a year in orbit, at least compared to his Earth-bound identical twin — but newly published research shows nothing that would cancel even longer space treks, like to Mars. The good news: Kelly largely bounced back after returning home, say scientists who released final...

A Chula Vista woman said she was harassed by a sheriff’s deputy while in the custody. NBC 7’s Steven Luke has more on the allegations.

Contending social media is “crucifying” him unfairly, the man seen punching women in a viral video contends it was they who attacked him, sending him to the ground, and then continued to try to hit him until he ran off.

A man from Downey received the shocking news that what he thought to be fat, was actually a giant 77-pound cancerous tumor.

Every time Chris Gilman leaves her home at the foot of Washington’s Mount Rainier, she fights the gnawing urge to turn around and check that someone isn’t about to shoot her. Sometimes she wins the battle. Sometimes she loses. In the year since the 48-year-old was nearly killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Gilman has had...

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion. The court ruled that the law violates the Iowa Constitution, siding with a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Iowa and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. The organizations sued the state over the law approved by lawmakers...

A kindergartner at Morning Creek Elementary in Sabre Springs is overcoming some remarkable physical challenges. In the process, he’s teaching his classmates and teachers some grown-up lessons about acceptance and ability.

Informed Choices is what its president describes as a “life-affirming” pregnancy center on the edge of downtown Gilroy in northern California. Even as it advertises “free pregnancy services” and promises in signs on its door and inside to discuss all options with pregnant women, Informed Choices exists to steer women away from abortion. The state of California, prompted by abortion...

A half a century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet — test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The Department of Veterans Affairs this spring commissioned a small pilot study to...

The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after her mother Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan. Dana and 12 other animals, including four other lions, two bears and two tigers, had barely survived under harsh conditions in the Syrian city of Aleppo, until...

Researchers accomplished their first artificial insemination attempt on a southern white rhinoceros at the San Diego Zoo, as part of an effort to save the critically endangered northern white rhino.

Two defense contractors were sentenced Friday for stealing medical equipment intended for deployed marines, according to the U.S. Attorney.