Mary Frances Hill

Where there is a mother’s will and a supportive hospital care team, there’s a way. There’s a way out of the chaos of drug dependency and the constant, frustrating struggle to stay healthy for the sake of a vulnerable newborn. And there’s a way into a…

It’s called ‘liquid gold’, and for good reason. After a small sip of colostrum – the thick, amber breast milk secreted in late-stage pregnancy and immediately after birth – a newborn baby gets the instant dose of nutrition, antibodies and…

Fibroids can have devastating effects on women’s lives. Fibroids, or benign pelvic tumors that grow in the muscular wall of the uterus, make monthly cycles much more painful and heavier, resulting in anemia, excessive bleeding, chronic pelvic pain…

A beer shared with family, a handprint, a small piece of pizza, a bowl of Jell-O. Sometimes the modest pleasures of everyday life become etched in memory when shared with a critically ill or dying loved one. For health care workers at St. Paul’s…

With National Nursing Week here, Agnes Black has one request: let’s scale back the ‘nurses are heroes’ talk. “When we make them heroes we don’t think of them as people with real needs,” says Black, Providence Health Care’s Director of Research and…