Patna: In a shocking incident, two partially burned foetuses were recovered from a garbage heap on Thursday morning near Patori sub-divisional hospital, around 40km from the district headquarters in ...

Pregnancies complicated by extremely early-onset foetal growth restriction (FGR), defined as a diagnosis ≤ 26 weeks of gestation, had a high risk for adverse outcomes, including perinatal death, ...

A former funeral director has pleaded guilty to more than 30 fraud charges relating to human remains, including those of four unborn babies. Robert Bush admitted 35 counts of false representation and ...

Indian doctors have successfully removed "parasitic twins" - two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby. Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer ...

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The Madras High Court, on Tuesday (July 29, 2025), invoked its parens patriae jurisdiction in favour of 19-week-old twin foetuses of a surrogate mother and decided to rectify a significant procedural ...

Five foetuses were placed in a plastic bag and thrown into an illegal rubbish dump in Protea Glen, Soweto. Gauteng police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo said they were called by a member of the ...

While discoveries like these rarely make the news, it happens all the time. We asked leading forensic pathologist Shakeera Holland what her team found after studying remains at the Diepkloof Forensic ...

They were wrapped in plastic or foil or a piece of clothing, tucked inside a backpack or pulled from a burnt pile of rubbish. Those were some of the ways the remains of newborns and foetuses were ...

Days after a woman was detected with 'foetus in foetu', an extremely rare condition, two foetuses were removed successfully post-delivery from her three-day-old child's abdomen in Amravati district, ...

A new study has found that foetuses have functional immune systems long before birth, helping them combat diseases and infections even when in the womb. This discovery could pave the way for new care ...