CHICAGO -- After struggling to breast-feed her first two children, Nyssa Retter was determined to do better with her third.
She gave birth without painkillers, which may make newborns slightly drowsy. She chose a free-standing birth center ...
CHICAGO -- Born with a birth defect, Sarah Bauer made countless childhood visits to the spina bifida clinic for check-ups.
She'd fidget in the waiting room filled with kids in wheelchairs, then undergo tests on her leg muscles and answer a ...
Listening in on the electrical currents of teenagers' brains during sleep, scientists have begun to hear the sound of growing maturity. It happens most intensively between the ages of 12 and 16 1/2: After years of frenzied fluctuation, the brain's...