23+ hour, 10+ min ago  (896+ words) On a chilly Saturday morning in March, the parking lot of Kalamazoo's Urban Alliance building on Stockbridge Avenue was packed with cars. Inside, families with kids in strollers and wagons crowded a hallway outside the gym, waiting to get inside....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (614+ words) From 2022 through 2024, Kalamazoo County recorded an infant mortality rate of 4.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. That's almost 2 percentage points less than Michigan's 3-year aggregate infant mortality rate, according to data from The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. During the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (375+ words) The communities are the latest to join Rx Kids, a public-private partnership that provides new moms and new-moms-to-be with cash. As of Wednesday, it was operating in 20 Michigan communities " not counting the Berrien County communities or Detroit, which also joined…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (261+ words) Regional anti-abortion pregnancy resource chain Alternatives Care Center closed its second Kalamazoo location earlier this year. ACC officially opened Burdick House in March of 2024 and closed it in February 2025. ACC executive director Cathy Stoner said a local business owner gave…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (419+ words) Now that the federal government has stopped recommending the COVID vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women, will those shots still be available to people who want them, and will insurance cover it? Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…...

1+ year, 5+ day ago  (936+ words) The scans revealed that starting at about 12 months of age, the more activity there was in the baby's hippocampus when seeing an image for the first time " like that canyon " the more likely they were ... Tristan Yates has no doubt…...