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Byline: Jacqueline Mroz Retrieving viable sperm from men with low fertility and from people who have used estrogen therapy for years has been a challenge, doctors say. A new, less [...]

Retrieving viable sperm from men with low fertility and from people who have used estrogen therapy for years has been a challenge, doctors say. A new, less invasive technique has [...]

Like millions of Americans, David Berry was curious about his genealogy. He wanted to learn more about his paternal grandfather, whose ancestry was British. But as he explored his father's [...]

Physicians are raising awareness of the reproductive toll that work stress, long hours, sleep deprivation and years of training can exact. From the start, Dr. Ariela Marshall, a hematologist at [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Mroz In 2015, Vanessa van Ewijk, a carpenter in the Netherlands, decided that she wanted to have a child. She was 34 and single, and so, like many [...]

In 2015, Vanessa van Ewijk, a carpenter in the Netherlands, decided that she wanted to have a child. She was 34 and single, and so, like many women, she sought [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Mroz Scores of people born through artificial insemination have learned from DNA tests that their biological fathers were the doctors who performed the procedure. Growing up in Nacogdoches, [...]

Growing up in Nacogdoches, Tex., Eve Wiley learned at age 16 that she had been conceived through artificial insemination with donor sperm. Her mother, Margo Williams, now 65, had sought [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Mroz Seventeen years ago, when she was in her thirties, Cindy and her female partner decided they wanted to have children. The couple spent hours poring over sperm [...]

Seventeen years ago, when she was in her thirties, Cindy and her female partner decided they wanted to have children. The couple spent hours pouring over sperm donor profiles, finally [...]

Danielle Teuscher decided to give DNA tests as presents last Christmas to her father, close friends and 5-year-old daughter, joining the growing number of people taking advantage of low-cost, accessible [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDawson Riverman's parents tried to help him make the best of it. Born without fingers on his left hand, Dawson struggled to perform even the simplest tasks, like tying [...]

Two days after Debra Demidon underwent in vitro fertilization, she gained more than 30 pounds in fluid and suddenly was struggling to breathe. Doctors diagnosed severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised [...]

Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED For most people, donating blood is as simple as rolling up a sleeve. But not for gay men. Since 1983, the Food and Drug Administration has barred them [...]

MORE than 200 years ago, during the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton was traveling with Gen. George Washington when the men stopped with their entourage to have a meal in front […]

PARK CITY, Utah WHEN he was just 11 years old and living in Princeton, Robert Stone borrowed his parents' Super 8 camera and made his first film, about the pollution […]

UNTIL Dec. 12, New Jersey State Senator Loretta Weinberg says, she had never heard of Bernard L. Madoff. But it turned out that, unknown to her, she had money in […]

CHRISTINA KELLY remembers the first time she tried to drive on a New Jersey highway after finally getting her driver's license at the age of 45. It was the last […]

ASK Maddie Deutsch, a fourth grader at Riverside Elementary School here, what she likes best about her school's herb garden, and her answer is one rarely heard spoken by a […]

IF you live in an affluent part of the state, look around: A teardown is probably going on in your community right now. You can find a house that has […]

ERIC THOMAS had been speaking to his fourth-grade class in Trenton about the dangers of drugs, and about how they can ruin lives, when he noticed that one of his […]

WHEN he was growing up on the streets of Newark with both of his parents addicted to drugs and his father in jail, going to college wasn't really on the […]

IT took only a few minutes. But within that span of time, a young woman would lose her life, two children would lose their mother and a town would once […]

WHEN people call Linda Strand a nitpicker, they're not kidding. Most days, Ms. Strand, a registered nurse from Branchburg, N.J., spends her time laboriously picking through people's hair for lice […]

THE recent discovery of dangerous levels of asbestos in a Montclair middle school has raised questions among parents about how the situation was handled and whether students there were unnecessarily […]

ELIZABETH BONDURANT still remembers the night she pulled over a driver for speeding on a deserted highway. It was 3 a.m. and she was a rookie officer working the night […]

IT was a cold, wintry night here and the place was quiet, except for a steady flow of cars and trucks driving slowly up and down the streets. The drivers […]

BY day, Jorge Luis Valcarcel teaches high school students about cell biology and the comparative anatomy of frogs and humans. But he has a dream: to spend his days on […]

When my son was about 2 months old, someone kindly gave us some wonderful board books by Tana Hoban called 'Black on White' and 'White on Black.' They were filled [...]

Bored with your family's same old vacations? Why not plan a memorable trip to the setting of your child's favorite storybook? Imagine visiting Paris with your children and taking a [...]

Every parent with more than one child has gone through it: struggling to help a child or children adjust to the arrival of a new sibling. Of course, children eventually [...]

Ask 10-year-olds about their favorite song and they'll probably be able to recite all the lyrics, word for word. But question them about their favorite poem, and you may get [...]

Though it didn't really start with the Harry Potter books, there's no doubt that children's books are more popular than ever with adult readers since the tales of the little, [...]

What is it about little children and trains? My son is so enthralled with trains that at times it seems to border on obsession. Sometimes he even talks in his [...]

The holidays are upon us, and so, here is a list of the best children's books of 2002. But first, what makes a children's book good enough to be considered [...]

At the ripe old age of 4, Georgia Waehler can recognize a painting by Vincent Van Gogh or Jackson Pollock and talk about the culture and history of a work [...]

WHAT: New York Susquehanna & Western Technical and Historical Society train rides. WHEN: 'Steam on the Susquehanna,' an all-day fall foliage trip to Warwick, N.Y., 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. [...]