Toronto doctors may separate conjoined twins
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Specialists from Toronto&#39;s Hospital for Sick Children says they believe the prognosis is &quot;very good&#39;&#39; for separation surgery for a pair of conjoined twins from Zimbabwe.
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For decades, doctors have operated on babies born with ambiguous genitalia. But there is a growing debate about the role physicians Â and parents Â should play in physically shaping children.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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Doctors in Toronto say four-month-old joined twins from Zimbabwe are a little malnourished but are otherwise in stable condition. The Hospital for Sick Children believes the prognosis is &quot;very good&quot; for separation surgery.
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One year ago, twin Egyptian boys born joined at the tops of their heads were separated after a 34-hour procedure that doctors warned could have resulted in the death of one or both.
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NEW YORK -- Formerly conjoined twins who were separated this summer are returning to the operating room - this time, to have their tonsils taken out.
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Ten-month-old conjoined twins attached from the lower chest to the pelvis were separated Wednesday after a daylong operation, a hospital spokesman said.
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London (IANS) A reported ban by India on the export of human skeletons may soon deprive medical students in Britain of the bony structure for detailed study.
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Surgery went smoothly yesterday for Carl and Clarence Aguirre, the formerly conjoined twins, who returned to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for a skin graft to fill in bald areas of their scalps.
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Scientists proposed a new theory this week for how identical twins are formed as embryos, in a discovery that may improve a broad range of artificial reproduction techniques.
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Doctors separated 10-month-old conjoined twin boys in five hours of surgery in central India on Tuesday.
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A couple discovered after they had  married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and  adopted by separate families, according to a member of  Britain's House of Lords.
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Torronto - Conjoined twins from Zimbabwe will undergo tests in Toronto to see whether they can survive a life-saving operation to separate them, Canadian doctors said on Tuesday.
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Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre are doing so well after their separation three weeks ago that they are ready to leave the hospital for rehab.
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Surgery to separate two German twins  who are joined at the head was halted on Saturday evening due  to complications affecting one of the girls, Johns Hopkins  Medical Institute said on Sunday.
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A medical team in Saudi Arabia on Monday successfully separated a pair of Polish conjoined infant girls who shared a spine and intestines.
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BALTIMORE Sept. 16, 2004 - One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center said early Thursday.