Having two extra penises, known as triphallia, has only been seen once before, in a newborn baby some years ago.

Other risks to the infant during both labor and delivery can include the early detachment of the placenta or damage to the umbilical cord, which together supply the fetus with its oxygen and ...

A bit of further digging reveals that she was shown detailed diagrams of male and female ... in mammals and the development of an embryo/foetus during pregnancy. All important stuff, of course ...

A recent discovery is very important as it finally gives an answer to why a mother's immune system does not reject a developing foetus as foreign tissue. Researchers discovered that embryo ...

In cephalopelvic disproportion, the baby's head is often too large to fit through the mother's pelvis, either because of their relative sizes or because of poor positioning of the fetus.

LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — A 20-year-old woman who may have miscarried in a restaurant bathroom in Manhattan last week could face criminal charges after workers found the 1.2-pound fetus in a ...

This argument reminds us that even in the abortion debate, we should regard the woman as a person and not just as a container for the foetus. We should therefore give great consideration to her ...

Some ethicists don't like the argument that abortion should be allowed where the baby, if born, would suffer from physical or mental handicaps. One argument goes like this: allowing disability as ...

While we wouldn’t want to document a computer motherboard with ASCII schematics, it’s great for a quick-and-dirty circuit diagrams. Not exactly schematics, but [Duckman] has some Arduino ...

SEDIBENG.- A case of concealment of birth is being investigated by the Vaal Marina SAPS after a foetus was found dumped inside a bucket in Vaal Marina recently. Constable Tshilidzi de Huis said ...