In other words, the susceptibility gene segment is passed along more often to diabetic children than it is to their healthy siblings.

Patients from seven New Jersey hospitals will have artwork on display or will perform, as will some of their healthy siblings.

In most cases, bone marrow transplants are performed in people who have a healthy sibling with the same tissue type.

Parents, emotionally and sometimes financially drained from the strains of caring for a handicapped child, have fewer resources to give healthy siblings.

Could Willie, the brain-damaged brother, have suddenly turned violent, his bitterness at being crippled by his father turning, unconsciously, to resentment of his healthy siblings?

It is not unusual for a healthy sibling to express the desire to "catch asthma."

With waiting lists growing, the ailing are increasingly turning to those closest to them - healthy siblings, children, even friends - for an organ to save their lives.

Fear grips the still healthy siblings.

Teen-Age Troubles Sick children often worry about their effect on family finances and the time and energy their parents must devote to them at the expense of healthy siblings.

Barely able to survive now, how will trying to care for this hapless creature sap the little energy and money they have for the healthy siblings?