The first photos proud expectant parents show off to family and friends—ultrasound images of a growing fetus in its earliest days—are underwhelming and indecipherable. Families long to see something ...

Even if you're not a parent, or even plan to have kids, this video is pretty cool to watch. It's of a fetus yawning at 30 weeks of pregnancy. Researchers at Durham and Lancaster Universities in ...

Ultrasound scans of faces in utero can distinguish between when a fetus yawns and when it just opens its mouth, according to research published November 28 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Nadja ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A study of ultrasound scans is revealing how ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at ...

A bevy of bellies assembles daily in the Village of Cross Keys to await his scrutiny. Some are puffy, others downright mountainous. All are gobbed with goo. Dr. Roger Sanders looks through the taut ...

Although fetal images are common in contemporary culture, they still pose interpretive difficulties, which are highlighted in Gish Jen’s “Birthmates” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Ultrasound.” ...

Biased headlines and letters to the editor written from seems-to-me statistics (seems to me most pro-lifers are men, or religious fanatics), distort what pro-life is about. Some pro-lifers are women ...

Should doctors or technicians scanning preg nant women see the sex of a baby? Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology , Madras say they will be able to calibrate ultrasound machines with software ...

Nearly 99 percent of women went ahead with an abortion after voluntarily viewing an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand, according to a large new U.S. study. Based on medical records for more ...