Archive for April, 2008

Sonic hedgehogs and two-faced babies

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 [...]

Autism: Genes or Environment?

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 [...]

And you’d thought you’d heard it all…

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 [...]