A one-minute microwave ablation procedure by a foetal medicine expert saved a twin baby’s life, showcasing how modern ...

Listening in: foetuses in the last ten weeks of pregnancy can process human speech Babies are born with the ability to recognise familiar sounds and language patterns, according to new research.

The study discovered that in the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, foetuses are listening to their mothers communicate. And when they are born, they can show what they've heard. Forty baby boys and ...

This week, they have gained their best propaganda weapon in decades. A new form of ultrasound scan can show foetuses at very early degrees of development. The resulting photographs were ...

Two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun are very likely to have been twins and the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to an expert. Professor Robert Connolly is an anatomist working ...

Foetuses start learning before they are born, scientists are claiming. New evidence shows that foetuses aged between 37 and 40 weeks have a short-term memory of at least 10 minutes, and a long ...

Federal agents discovered four preserved foetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show. The foetuses were found during a ...

But one female fighter has told the BBC women sometimes had to abort their foetuses to remain in the army. Members of the Farc have now agreed to lay down their arms, reintegrate into society and ...

Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States. The discovery was made by officers searching for contraband at Bogota Airport on ...

Those were some of the ways the remains of newborns and foetuses were found before being taken to the Diepkloof Forensic Pathology Service in Soweto. To help figure out why, researchers from Wits ...