A baby born last month to an unconscious, severely brain-damaged northern Virginia woman has died at the age of five weeks.

In a statement, the Torres family says that Susan Anne Catherine Torres died of heart failure Sunday night after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine

Counseling teams have been dispatched to shelters across the South to help scores of children traumatized by Hurricane Katrina.

The unprecedented numbers of shaken children are testing the nation's network for emergency psychological help, according to caregivers and experts

Teens whose mothers had attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, according to a German research report.

Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent

Teens whose mothers had attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, according to a German research report.

Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent

Teens whose mothers had attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, according to a German research report.

Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent