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  Asthma to Bronchiolitis: Know how smoking impacts foetal and infant respiratory health

  Health | July 02, 2025 13:53 IST

  Whether the mother smokes herself or is exposed to passive smoke, the risks to the foetus or infant can be severe and long-term. Read on to know how smoking impacts foetal and infant respiratory health.

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  Supreme Court upholds right to life of foetus, rejects plea for late-term pregnancy termination

  India | May 15, 2024 15:36 IST

  The petitioner's case challenged the Delhi High Court's earlier decision, which similarly denied termination based on the absence of foetal abnormalities and the lack of threat to the mother's health.

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  Covid infection could damage foetuses of pregnant women, claims a study

  Health | January 26, 2023 13:37 IST

  Oxygen, nutrients and metabolic products are exchanged between mother and child in the placenta. Attached to the uterine wall, this organ forms such a strong barrier against the coronavirus that only 3 per cent or fewer of foetuses whose mothers test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are also infected.

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  Assam: Doctor stitches back pregnant woman after finding foetus premature; faces probe

  India | September 04, 2022 21:06 IST

  Assam: The doctor had allegedly tried to hush up the matter and asked the expectant woman’s family not to discuss it with anyone, but her relatives and neighbours came to know of it when the patient’s health worsened

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  Madhya Pradesh: Two foetuses found dumped in Bhopal; probe underway

  Crime | August 12, 2022 14:30 IST

  Madhya Pradesh news: A foetus was found floating in a swollen drain in front of the government-run Sultania Hospital three days ago, inspector Rakesh Sahu of Taliya police station said.

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  Odisha: Foetus sex detection racket busted in Berhampur, 13 held

  Crime | May 28, 2022 8:19 IST

  "13 arrested for running interstate ultrasound racket to determine whether foetus of pregnant women was male or female. On detecting a foetus as female, they would arrange for an abortion. Prime accused running this centre for past few years," said Berhampur SP.

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  Domestic violence ground for pregnancy termination, says HC; allows woman to abort foetus

  India | August 18, 2021 11:02 IST

  The judgement was passed by a bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Madhav Jamdar on Aug 3 and a copy of it was made available on Tuesday.

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  Delhi HC allows woman's plea to abort 23 week plus abnormal twin foetus

  India | May 25, 2021 13:34 IST

  According to the petition, 'dandy walker malformation' is a rare brain condition in which the part joining the two hemispheres of the cerebellum does not fully form

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  HC allows termination of 25-week pregnancy as foetus unlikely to survive with abnormalities

  India | January 04, 2021 15:24 IST

  The Delhi High Court Monday granted permission to a woman for medical termination of her 25-week pregnancy as the survival of the foetus, suffering from serious abnormalities, is unlikely.

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  Mumbai: 5-month-old dead foetus found in trash box on train

  Crime | January 24, 2020 7:25 IST

  The foetus was found on Wednesday evening, said senior inspector Sushil Kamble of the Tilak Nagar police station. According to the doctors who examined the foetus, it had been dumped at least three days ago, going by the stage of its decomposition.

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  4 Sumatran tiger foetuses found in jar in Indonesia (Lead)

  World | December 09, 2019 14:25 IST

  The foetuses, which were kept in plastic jars, and the hide were found on Saturday in two separate places in Riau province after the police received a tip-off about the suspected poachers.

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  Male foetus found abandoned near Beas river in Manali

  India | December 02, 2019 20:36 IST

  An abandoned male foetus was found in Manali in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district on Monday. The foetus was wrapped in a cloth lying along the banks of Beas river near Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering in Manali, Kullu Superintendent of Police Gaurav Singh said.

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  Delhi: High Court asks AIIMS to examine woman's plea for abortion of 'abnormal' foetus

  India | July 04, 2019 20:02 IST

  The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the AIIMS to constitute a medical board to examine the feasibility of terminating pregnancy of a woman who is 25 weeks pregnant and wants an abortion as the foetus suffers from enlarged kidneys and may not survive.

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  Female foetus, wrapped in watermelon skin, found dumped in Noida drain

  India | June 11, 2019 19:53 IST

  A female foetus, around five-months-old, was found inside a watermelon rind dumped in a drain at a village here, police said Tuesday. A sanitation worker had spotted the foetus on Monday in Gejha village in Sector 93, they said.

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  UP woman turns up at police station with foetus in bag, alleges rape

  India | July 23, 2018 6:53 IST

  A rape case has been registered against the accused, who has been identified as 22-year-old Manoj.

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  Foetus in Foetu: Baby born ‘pregnant’ with twin brother startles doctors in Mumbai, India

  Lifestyle | August 02, 2017 11:42 IST

  The baby is now doing well after removal of the foetus.

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  Supreme Court allows Mumbai woman to terminate her 24-week-old foetus

  India | January 16, 2017 14:14 IST

  The Supreme Court today allowed a Mumbai-based woman, who is in her 24th week of pregnancy, to undergo termination of the foetus as it does not have a skull.

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  Researchers find new blood test to identify alcohol disorders in foetus

  Lifestyle | November 10, 2016 22:46 IST

  In order to spot the foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), researchers, including one of Indian origin, have identified a blood test that will help in finding how severely a newborn can be affected by alcohol

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  Bulandshahr: 14-year-old rape victim reaches police station with aborted foetus

  India | August 30, 2016 8:35 IST

  In yet another shameful incident in Uttar Pradesh, a 14-year-old girl reached Bulandshahr (rural) police station, with an aborted foetus of four months in a bag, to file a complaint against a man who repeatedly

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  Doctors remove 3.5kg foetus from one-year-old girl's stomach in Tamil Nadu

  India | August 09, 2016 16:31 IST

  In a rare medical condition, doctors at a private hospital in Mettupalayam removed a 3.5 Kg foetus from the abdomen of an one-year-old girl after a two-hour long operation. This foetus which was removed