Soul Searching

Hurried Doctors, Economic Pressures, Fear of Pain Play a Role in Rapid Decline
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Pregnant with her first child, Julie Speier prepared to deliver with the help of a midwife at a New York City birthing center. But in June — three weeks before the due date and 600 miles from home — her […]

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By ANN PLESHETTE
Breast-feeding, what many believe to be the most intimate act between a mother and child, is also generally believed to be an act exclusively between a mother and child.
According to experts, however, there is a growing trend of cross-nursing, in which a mother will allow another woman to breast-feed her baby.

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Children carrying the first gene that has been clearly linked to obesity find it harder than others to tell when they are full, London-based researchers say.

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Anxiety, depression and sleepless nights increase the risk of diabetes in men, a Swedish study suggests.

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Patients with early Alzheimer’s disease who exercised regularly saw less deterioration in the areas of the brain which control memory, according to a study released Sunday at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Chicago.

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