British Teen With ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’ Slumbers for Eight Months

    Unbelievably a British Tenn, 15-year-old Stacey Comerford, fell asleep in April and awoke in May.   The Sun reports on the case of Stacey Comerford, a teenage girl who’s afflicted with what’s known as ‘Kleine-Levin Syndrome’, or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. People with the condition have “episodes” where they sleep for as long as 20 hours a […]

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Why Abby Won’t Talk

Abby Barnes’ hand shoots up nearly every time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer

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