A New Jersey hospital is being sued for performing an unauthorized autopsy on a stillborn baby lost in a morgue for several months. The lawsuit against Hackensack University Medical Center was filed ...

About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth. One major exception to the rarity of fetal autopsies is when pregnancy loss ends with criminal arrest. Arrests after pregnancy loss are not ...

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A disagreement between law enforcement and the Washington County coroner over whether an autopsy was needed for the investigation of a stillborn fetus at a Peters Township home led to the “king’s ...

Warning: this article is about stillbirth and its investigations, including autopsies and related procedures. About six babies are stillborn in Australia every day—an incredibly difficult time for ...

A Connecticut woman is suing Hackensack University Medical Center claiming the hospital misplaced her stillborn son’s remains and later performed an unauthorized autopsy, in violation of her religious ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these ...