The human body is a strange and wonderful thing. It's also soft and squishy and vulnerable to all manner of threats, both from outside the body and within. One extremely rare protection strategy ...

For some women, pregnancy is a time of profound loss. Not all pregnancies progress as expected. One serious complication is ectopic pregnancy, a condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere ...

Last week's episode of Call The Midwife featured a heartbreaking storyline which shed light on a rare pregnancy phenomenon known as lithopedion - when a woman is forced to deliver a calcified foetus.