Separated Twins Evolving Into Separate Boys
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arl may be the heavier twin, but Clarence is eating like a pig. And while Clarence is trying to climb out of his crib, Carl has a slight fever and tried to pull the bandages off his head yesterday.
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A poor family in an isolated Indonesian village has had two hermaphrodite children.
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They are fused mid-torso, sharing a kidney, a liver, a pelvis, a pair of legs and part of the large intestines. On Monday, a team of surgeons will try to separate 4-year-old Kendra and Maliyah Herrin in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours. Doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center say it is the first known separation surgery attempted on twins with a shared kidney.
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It turns out that the Bad Boy family is getting two new   members.
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Almost always, one twin dies before another. From that moment, twins say, the uniqueness of life as a twin carries over into the grief they feel.
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A 10-month-old twin boy born with a potentially fatal heart condition improved so dramatically that he was released from the hospital Thursday without the transplant he was awaiting.
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Troubled by enlarged male breasts, boys are turning to surgery. Waiting may be wiser.
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More couples are selecting the sex of their children, using techniques developed to help couples who are infertile or at risk for having babies with genetic diseases.
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Two families who adopted Chinese children and brought them to separate homes in Arizona and Alabama have discovered that the toddlers are siblings and almost certainly twins.
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Twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister, a peer has told the House of Lords.
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TORONTO (CP) - Specialists from Toronto&#39;s Hospital for Sick Children are assessing conjoined twins from Zimbabwe to see if they are good candidates for separation surgery, the hospital announced Tuesday.
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Women who have a male twin are less likely to marry and have children, perhaps because of being exposed to their brother's testosterone for nine months in the womb, researchers reported on Monday.
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A new study suggests that older children tend to have higher IQs than their younger siblings. Now scientists just have to figure out why.
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Twin sisters are seeing double -- or make that quadruple -- after both delivered twin boys about an hour apart today at an Atlanta hospital.
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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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"Our results show that females who had a male cotwin have reduced fitness compared to those who had a female cotwin, but the success of males is unaffected by the sex of their cotwin"  Women who have a male twin are less likely to marry and have children, perhaps because of being exposed to their brother's testosterone for nine months in the womb, researchers reported on Monday. via Reuters
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In a UK first, a mother has given birth to twins using her own eggs matured in a laboratory.