fetuses

Water in California's Central Valley contains enough manganese to cause cognitive disabilities and motor control issues in children, and Parkinson's-like symptoms in adults. A naturally occurring metal, manganese is found in water supplies…

According to an open-access Editor's Choice article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), third-trimester fetuses with in utero opioid exposure exhibited multiple smaller 2D biometric measurements of the brain, as well as…

Adam-Troy Castro’s story “Arvies,” first published in the August 2010 issue of Lightspeed magazine, imagines a society that believes only fetuses have souls. One consequence of this is that it’s normal for people to use advanced…

Why do human mothers have a much harder time giving birth compared to our evolutionary cousins, the chimpanzees and macaques? The differences are a big head and wide shoulders. But it has made all the difference for safer births. "The…

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion group said Tuesday that the five fetuses found last week in a member's home came from the medical waste being disposed by a…

Researchers in Scotland reported on Thursday that pregnant women with Covid were not only at greater risk of developing severe disease, but also more likely to lose their fetuses and babies in the womb or shortly after birth, compared with…

In the first MRI-based study to investigate pre-natal alcohol exposure, researchers found significant changes in the brain structure of fetuses exposed to alcohol compared to healthy controls. Results of the study are being presented today…