When she felt the first contractions at 11:15 p.m. New Year’s Eve, Renai Townsend thought she had time to get to Boston to deliver her second child. “I thought they were Braxton Hicks contractions, which I had before,” she said. Renai called her parents to come over to watch her 2-year-old son, Will...

It can be hard to find the time to take a break from doctor's appointments when undergoing treatment for cancer. Recently, five boat captains in Scituate took a group of South Shore Health patients on a sail in conjunction with a nonprofit called Sailing Heals.

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