Earlier this week, it was reported that a baby with two faces was born to a young couple in rural northern India. Lali, born last month in a normal delivery, has a condition known as craniofacial duplication. Diprosopus is well-documented in the literature, but the number of cases in which the diprosopic infant [...]
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This week, CNN.com is running a series about autism. If you are not familiar with autism, here's a little primer about this condition.
Autism is a disorder of brain development that usually appears before the age of 3 that results in developmental delays causing problems with communication, social development and interaction. Many children with [...]
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Remember this post? Remember the rhetorically speculative nature of the possibility of men becoming pregnant that was addressed?
Well, it seems that a pregnant man actually exists.
Last week, Good Morning America ran a segment on a transgendered man, Thomas Beatie, who lives in Oregon with his wife, Nancy. Beatie was born female, but opted [...]
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