“Let the baby die.” Do not adjust your computer screen. Those were the callous words printed on a sign below one family’s plea for help. Their baby, RJ Ahlers, was born with a rare birth defect affecting his brain development and a chromosomal disorder that have left doctors unsure if he will live past his second birthday. His parents, Angela and KC Ahlers, continue to fight for his life and are asking for donations to help with the mounting medical bills to treat him. Doctors recently discovered fluid in his head making the battle even tougher. RJ’s neurosurgeon is out of network as are so ..read more

Less than a year after welcoming her first child via an emergency cesarean section, Olympic gold medal runner Allyson Felix broke a record to move her past the fastest man alive. On Sunday, Felix, 33, won gold at the track and field World Championships in Doha, Qatar, while racing in a mixed-gender 4×400 meter relay, according to CNN. This latest victory means Felix now has 12 gold medals at the World Championships — which breaks a tie she held with fellow Olympic medalist Usain Bolt, considered the fastest man in history, who earned 11 gold medal wins at the championships before his ret ..read more

When a 25-year-old girl sought help at an emergency room for symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, generalized weakness, and skin discoloration, she received news that even the doctors themselves weren't expecting—her blood was actually turning blue. The girl's strange case is featured in a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the report, the girl came to the ER appearing cyanotic (that's the clinical term for appearing to have a blue tint to the skin). She also presented with a high respiratory rate of 22 breaths per minute (the U.S. National ..read more

Michaels’ definition of spooky might be a little more…flexible than others.  This year, the craft store is relaxing the idea that Halloween decorations have to be scary, instead stocking shelves with a line of figurines that are far more “chill” than they are “bone-chilling”: skeletons doing yoga.  RELATED: Ghoulish Treats for a Healthy Halloween A hilarious collection from Ashland home decor, these quirky accent pieces depict creepy, boney skeletons twisted up in a variety of yoga poses — from tree pose to king pigeon pose and beyond. You’ll even find one cross-legged and meditating ..read more

The family of an infant who died after he was cut from his murdered mother’s womb has been billed more than $300,000 for his care, the attorney for the baby’s father tells PEOPLE. In addition, hospital bills identify the child as “Figueroa, boy” — the same last name as alleged murderer Clarisa Figueroa, who pretended she gave birth to the baby and cared for him in the hospital as if he were her child. “It’s atrocious, it’s horrible,” attorney Frank Avila tells PEOPLE. “It’s hard for me to understand the lack of humanity.” RELATED: 5 Proven Ways to Reduce Your Medical Bills In a sta ..read more

A little boy from Georgia is being called a hero after saving his sister from drowning in a pool after she fell in. Morgan Smith, 20, was on the bottom step of the pool last week when she suddenly began to see black spots, CBS 47 Action News JAX reported on Tuesday. Smith has no recollection of what happened after. Aiden McCullough, 7, explained to the news outlet that his sister had a seizure and fell backward. “I was thinking like, ‘Oh my God. Oh My God. She’s going to die,'” Aiden told Action News JAX. Acting fast, Aiden grabbed Smith by the hair and held her above the water ..read more

A mother is urging the public to take precautions this summer after her son contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while swimming in Maryland’s Sinepuxent Bay near Ocean City. Her warning comes days after two cases in Florida of a more severe type, necrotizing fasciitis, led to the death of a 77-year-old woman and required emergency surgery for a 12-year-old girl. The Maryland mother, Brittany Carey, detailed the incident in a Facebook post on Saturday, writing that her son returned from a trip to the bay with his grandparents with “little spots developing all over his body.” The next morning t ..read more

A flesh-eating bacteria has made its way up the coast to the Delaware Bay, possibly thanks to increasingly warm water temperatures, researchers warn in a new study. Vibrio vulnificus is typically found in the warm waters of the Gulf Coast, as it lives in temperatures above 55 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study by New Jersey researchers published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. But it’s slowly headed north, and between 2017-2018, infected five people who either ate seafood from the Delaware Bay or went crabbing near the bay between Delaware and New Jersey. All of the ..read more

Family and medical examiners are still searching for answers six months after an Australian man died in “absolute agony” of salmonella — and they believe he may have developed the infection after eating a gecko on a dare. David Dowell, 34, started complaining of stomach problems the day after a Christmas party on Saturday, Dec. 1, but thought it was just a hangover, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “Then on Monday, it was coming out both ends and he was really sick and the moment he started throwing up and it was green, that’s when they rang the ambulance,” Hannah, his sister, told th ..read more

A 30-year-old Indiana woman lost her battle to cystic fibrosis just two days after marrying her fiancé in a hospital ICU. Anna Gonzales — who was diagnosed with the disorder as an infant — died at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday of the disease, her brother, Santiago Gonzales, tells PEOPLE. On Tuesday, the Goshen, Indiana woman had been able to tie the knot with fiancé Justin Middleton in a bedside ceremony, which was quickly arranged by nurses, respiratory and physical therapists, social workers and other caregivers at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, when they realized their patient ..read more