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Fewer Lancaster County teens getting pregnant; schools credit better sex education
3+ hour, 47+ min ago (1612+ words) Mc Caskey High School student Mayaliz Ortiz learns how to aid a choking child using a resuscitation mannequin as her son, Asaad, watches during a class on CPR and choking prevention offered through the Teen ELECT program at Mc Caskey…...
Pirates pitcher Braxton Ashcraft enlists batterymate Joey Bart for gender reveal at PNC Park
1+ week, 1+ day ago (364+ words) Braxton Ashcraft has a lot on his mind. In addition to being the starting pitcher for the Pirates on Thursday afternoon against the Washington Nationals, he and his wife, Cassidy, are expecting their first child, a baby girl. The gender…...
Align Pregnancy Services now offering free ultrasounds to pregnant women at Ephrata Borough location
2+ week, 2+ day ago (379+ words) Here is the new location of Align Pregnancy Services at 115 E. Main St. in Ephrata Borough. A Christian nonprofit organization is now offering free, limited obstetric ultrasounds in Ephrata Borough after moving to a larger building. Align Pregnancy Services, an outreach…...
Hepatitis A vaccine protects kids and adults around them [column]
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (586+ words) Pediatricians Dr. Pia Fenimore and Dr. Joan Thode stand in a medical room at Women & Babies Hospital in Lancaster on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. In this installment in our series about diseases preventable by vaccination, we examine hepatitis A and why protection…...
US maternal deaths fell in 2024 and may have dropped again last year, government data shows
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (421+ words) FILE - A pregnant woman stands for a portrait in Dallas, May 18, 2023. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported that 649 mothers died in 2024 during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. That is down from 669 deaths in 2023, and a…...
Experience as local nurse practitioner was inspiration for new book [letter]
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (246+ words) As a nurse of 20 years and a lifelong Lancaster County resident, I have seen our community at its strongest and its most vulnerable. Three years ago, I began working at the Lancaster County Children's Alliance. Witnessing the sheer volume of…...
Reflections on lifelong fascination with twins, including well-known Lancaster brothers [column]
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1097+ words) Artist Judy Crabtree was inspired to create a series of art pieces, including this one, after spotting Dan and Walt Christ, identical twin brothers who were married to identical twin sisters, Betty and Jane. Have you ever imagined you're mysteriously…...
Reflections on autism, Trump foreign policy: Letters to the Editor for Nov. 25, 2025
5+ mon, 21+ hour ago (115+ words) The LNP | Lancaster Online Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the other five days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, .. . The LNP | Lancaster Online Opinion department publishes reader letters…...
So-called experts put people at risk with false claims about autism and Tylenol [letter]
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (157+ words) I cannot believe anyone can take seriously anything coming from the supposed experts in charge in Washington, D. C. The term "autism" was first used in 1911 by a Swiss psychiatrist. It was formally recognized as a distinct condition in the 1940s. Tylenol was…...
Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (971+ words) President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , left, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listen. Health and Human…...