Having Babies After Breast Cancer: The Odds and Options by Gina Shaw In April 2004, I was 36 years old, a newlywed, and planning with my husband to start trying to get pregnant with our first child. But a suspicious lump in my breast turned out to mean that we would be spending 2004 dealing with cancer, not new parenthood. Because cancer survival rates are increasing, while at the same time women are becoming mothers later in life, more and more women are facing decisions about how and whether to have children after being treated for breast cancer. Ratings, Overviews Help Parents Decide Which Hospital Best for Ailing Child by Carolyn Cosmos Your child is sick, very sick, and you want the best care. But what is ìbestî when it comes to children's hospitals? See Also: Child Magazineís Top 10 Childrenís Hospitals for 2005 Health Insurance Available for International Patients

Cardiac Surgeons Seeking Replacements for Failing Hearts by Gina Shaw Heart transplantation, artificial hearts and other technologies to replace or assist a failing heart have had tantalizing successesóand heartbreaking failuresóin the past 40 years since Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967. Although Still No Cure, New Treatments Developing for MS by Carolyn Cosmos Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an erratic and unpredictable disease. Chronic but not typically fatal, it launches an ongoing assault on the nervous system that damages the spine and brain. Symptoms come and go for reasons unknown, and the course of the disease and these symptoms vary widely, but problems can include numbness. fatigue, movement difficulties or paralysis, cognitive decline and blindness. Directory of U.S. Hospitals Serving International Patients