Infant twin gets a heart; sis waits
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At about 10 am Tuesday, the heart of a 2-month-old boy began beating inside the chest of Abigail Patrick, 4 months, during the transplant surgery at Vanderbilt University Children&#39;s Hospital.
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Camila Gonzalez now has two hearts beating separate rhythms inside her tiny chest. At 22 months of age, she became the youngest child in the United States to receive a donorâs heart while also retaining her original one.
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If you have a brother or sister who had a heart attack at an early age, start paying attention to your own arteries because youâre at increased risk for heart trouble, a new study finds.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Macon is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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Just a few days before Aleta St. James&#39; birthday, she gave birth for the first time in her life to twins. Yesterday, at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York, the Manhattan mother introduced her two children to the world.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of "fetus in fetu" in which one twin becomes trapped inside another during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it.
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Orphaned Bangladeshi conjoined twins have survived an initial operation, but it will be another six months before they can be separated, the Australian charity looking after them said.
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When one child grapples with a life-changing diagnosis or accident, the pain is also felt by siblings.
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In a UK first, a mother has given birth to twins using her own eggs matured in a laboratory.
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Maywood, Illinois: The world&#39;s tiniest surviving baby made her public debut at a US hospital on Tuesday, a wrinkled, but perfectly formed three-month-old, who was the size of a cell phone at birth.
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A twin boy survives in the womb despite attempts to end his life to save that of his brothers.
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Whether your brother or sister had early heart disease is the best predictor of your own heart health, a study finds.
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A newborn brother and sister were nestled in a hospital bed with their 56-year-old mother on Wednesday, a day after their history-making arrival.
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DALLAS Oct. 12, 2004 - 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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WYNNEWOOD, Pa. - The odds of a fraternal twin giving birth to two sets of identical twins may be one in a million, but Geana Morris can attest to it...
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Jessica Carman knows about small. She can do CPR on a baby's chest no bigger than a lemon, using only her fingers. She can insert a tube no wider than a strand of spaghetti into a premature infant's trachea.
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A year-old conjoined twin was in stable condition Sunday, a day after doctors halted surgery to separate her from her sister, a hospital reported. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Children's Center temporarily stopped surgery Saturday night because metabolic complications caused the girl's condition to become unstable.