Claudia Kalb

Doctors and patients who battle cancer together can develop a unique bond: corned beef on chemo day.

A new era of openness about reproductive options is shaking up an industry based on donor anonymity.

More than 7 million kids are enrolled in day care, so I know I'm not the only one wondering if it's actually good.

As personal genetic testing takes off, some worry that marketing is getting ahead of science.

A new report calls for increased FDA scrutiny of the genetic testing industry.

Rachel Estrella, A high-school senior in Barrington, R.I., gets into bed every night before 10, hoping to beat her insomnia. One frustrating hour later, she gets up.

Autism is everywhere—once again. Separating fact from fear as the courts and Hollywood wade in.

The goal of one study, which will follow 500,000 people for years, is to figure out who gets cancer and who doesn't, and why.

Spanking may lead to aggression and sexual problems later in life, says a new study. So why do so many parents still believe in it?

A report from the front in the never-ending war on drugs.

An old friend talks about Judah Folkman, the pioneering cancer researcher who endured years of skepticism before his work was recognized as the breakthrough it truly was.

A Newsweek writer recalls Judah Folkman, who created a whole new field of cancer research, and treated his patients like family.

It's 1 p.m. at Mercer Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Lena Paskewitz's kindergarten class is filled with the happy hum of kids getting ready for their favorite part of the day: lunch.

The year is 1895 and Pauline Gross, a young seamstress, is scared. Gross knows nothing about the double helix or the human-genome project--such medical triumphs are far in thefuture.

As every 21st century mother knows, technology has become a routine part of delivering a baby in the hospital. One big advance: fetal heart rates are now routinely tracked during labor to be sure that there are no major and worrisome changes that would require an emergency Cesarean delivery.

Johns Hopkins is a world leader in medicine. So when Sorrel and Tony King found themselves there in 2001 with their 18-month-old daughter, Josie, they were grateful.

Every day, hospitals across the country care for Americans in need. Babies are born, heart-attack victims are saved, broken bones are healed. But today, as the population ages, medical demands surge and costs rise, America's hospitals are being tested like never before.

It was a destiny Melodee stokes desperately wanted to avoid. The youngest of five girls, Melodee watched her oldest sister, Brenda, now 60, battle breast cancer twice.

If you're an Asian woman living in Bergen County, N.J., good news: your life expectancy, says a new study, is 91. That's 33 years longer than Native American men in South Dakota.

Ben Barres knows how it feels to be treated like a girl. Back in high school, Ben--who at that point was a girl named Barbara--was desperate to ditch sewing and cooking class for the "boy" stuff: woodworking, mechanical engineering, auto mechanics.

The statistics are staggering: a sixfold spike, between 1993 and 2002, in the number of doctor visits in which kids and adolescents were prescribed antipsychotic drugs.

Our blood holds the secrets to who we are. Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical; we are far more similar than diverse. But that tiny 0.1 percent difference reveals clues to our ancestries.

The year is 1876 and Sigmund Freud's scientific career is about to begin. The id, the ego, the superego? Nowhere to be found. When he travels to the University of Vienna's zoological station in Trieste, Italy, sometime around his 20th birthday, the young med student embarks on a far less esoteric task: hunting for the testicles of the eel.

In 2000, Dr. Eric Kandel, a Columbia professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, earned a Nobel Prize for his work on learning and memory.

Fat is bad, but good fat is good. What about fish? Wine? Nuts? A new appetite for answers has put science on a collision course with the media.

For the millions of baby boomers who decide to stick it out, survival depends on 'flexibility, humor and affection.'

If only Darwin were alive to see it. Last week, scientists announced that they had discovered a biological treasure trove of never-before-seen plants and animals in the Papua province of Indonesia.

DNA Testing: It is connecting lost cousins and giving families surprising glimpses into their pasts. Now scientists are using it to answer the oldest question of all: where did we come from?

Health-conscious African-Americans are reinventing classic recipes. So long, pork fat; hello, baked chicken.

I always wonder about the patients: after my stories go to print, how do their stories turn out? In October I got an e-mail from Suellen Bennett, whom I had interviewed last year for a piece on young women and breast cancer.