[caption id="attachment_81754" align="alignright" width="356"] (Courtesy of the World Food Programme)[/caption] Thanksgiving is here, and for today's festivities many of us will reunite with our loved ones to enjoy a…
A group of trained dogs are now officially part of medical treatment for young patients at San Vicente de Paul Hospital in Costa Rica's Heredia province. The four-legged therapy began as…
Art and social work join forces tonight as Man Yu Fung and other renowned artists unite with the Costa Rican Heart Foundation, the United for Childhood Foundation…
I come from dry places. I am relatively new at motherhood. I am relatively new to Costa Rica. Therefore, the first downpours to trap me — along…
The Costa Rican Doctors and Surgeons Association announced new regulations for fertility treatments following a bevy of multiple births in May. Wednesday, the association’s board of directors…
Andrés, the fifth sextuplet, has died from multiple organ failure, Costa Rican media reported Monday morning. At 9 a.m. on Monday, the infant’s lungs, heart and brain…
The second of the Costa Rican sextuplets born on May 17 has died, Costa Rican media reported Friday afternoon. Emma, the oldest of the six premature babies,…
Diego, one of the sextuplets born earlier this week in Costa Rica, died Wednesday afternoon, according to hospital authorities. Dr. Roberto Araya, head of neonatal care at San…
A woman gave birth to sextuplets, four boys and two girls, all born in stable condition, in the first birth of its kind in Costa Rica, health…
“Parents will say, ‘All I want to do is go to my nephew’s birthday party, and have my sister not ask me to leave because my child…
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