Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, got a warm welcome on her return to the country from Paris in 1925. And she went straight to work, introducing her new ...

In the early 1890s Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo was just another poor girl trying to survive in the provincial town of San Pedro de Macorís in the Dominican Republic. Her life took an ...

Days after bringing home her newborn twin daughters, Alysia Vaccaro could sense Evangelina wasn't as healthy as her sister. "I had a baby to compare her to and I just knew, something was wrong with ...

Senior Correspondent Alysia Padilla-Vaccaro and Christian Vaccaro owe their daughter’s life to stem cells. Evangelina, now two, is alive today because she saved herself with her own bone marrow cells.