A troubling side effect of Alaska's spike in opiod abuse is getting increased attention from health care officials: drug-dependent babies who go through withdrawal in the first days of their lives. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby products line the shelves on March 3, 2026, at an aisle in an Anchorage grocery store. Fewer babies are being born in Alaska, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some of us, having a baby means we feel confined to our frumpiest sweats on the couch, feeding and trying to nap for a few ...

Newborns rest in the nursery of a recovery center. Preliminary data shows that 10 babies were born with syphilis in 2023. Such cases of congential syphilis, which are infections passed on by pregnant ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Summer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea and stepped outside into a blur of blowing snow. It was a short walk from the school ...

Mothers in Alaska’s northern and western regions are more likely than other Alaska mothers to give birth to preterm and underweight babies, and their travel from rural Alaska to get care in bigger ...