CHICAGO -- Last summer Kelly Bruski went to the store with her sons to buy a birthday gift for her boyfriend.

When the boys, now 6 and 9, chose a magnet desk-toy called Buckyballs, "I saw they were really picking out a gift for themselves," said ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- It was always the introduction for Georgiann Steely -- the ringing of the doorbell, the approach to the man at the cash register -- that made her palms sweat and knees knock.

As a grade-schooler, she avoided these moments -- ...

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...

MILWAUKEE -- Amanda Reilly is one of 12 people nationwide whose idea for a tablet app for autistic children could become a reality.

Reilly, of Milwaukee, says the app could calm a child having an "emotional meltdown" because of experiencing too ...