ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2012) — Research published on bmj.com today suggests that although more babies survived shortly after extreme preterm birth in England in 2006 compared with 1995, the number with major conditions on leaving hospital remained largely unchanged. A second study, also published today, shows some improvement in the number of extremely preterm children

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to divine the balance Congress had meant to strike in a 1986 law that established a system to compensate people injured by vaccines while barring some, but not all, lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. David C. Frederick, a lawyer for a couple who said their daughter had been badly

By ALAN SCHWARZ The player looked up woozily through his face mask at University of Florida medical personnel peering through, asking if he was O.K. He wasn’t. He had sustained a concussion, a serious one and it was going to be a very, very big deal. This player was not Tim Tebow, the Heisman Trophy-winning

SARAH WILSON was speaking proudly the other day when she declared: My house is a little messy. Ms. Wilson lives in Stroudsburg, Pa., a small town in the Poconos. Many days, her home is strewn with dress-up clothes, art supplies and other artifacts from playtime with her two small children, Benjamin, 6, and Laura, 3.