German Conjoined Twin Dies at U.S. Hospital
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A 13-month-old German girl died at a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, early on Thursday, shortly after an operation to separate her from her conjoined twin sister.
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The 13th patient to receive the world's first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, company officials said yesterday.
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A 16-month-old German girl who was surgically separated from her conjoined twin sister three months ago at Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center has left Baltimore to return home to Lemgo, Germany, the hospital said Tuesday.
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The great-great-grandson of Germany&#39;s  Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck has been found dead in his  central London apartment, police said on Wednesday.
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Conjoined twins separated during a 26-hour surgery were breathing on their own Saturday, a milestone just days after the operation.
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(New York-WABC, August 19, 2004)  It has now been two weeks since those two-year-old conjoined twins from the Philippines underwent a massive surgery to be separated. We are now getting a new look at the boys as doctors keep a very close eye over their ...
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LONDON - A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.    According to this week's issue of The Lancet medical journal, the German doctors used a mesh cage, a growth chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing stem cells, to create a new jaw bone that fit exactly into the gap left by the cancer surgery...
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Surgery to separate German twins connected at the head resumed in Maryland Wednesday after complications affecting one of the girls halted an earlier operation, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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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.
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US doctors hope to resume surgery to separate German conjoined twins within days after the procedure was halted because of complications with one of the girls.
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A Bolivian-born jaguar that killed a Denver zookeeper was well-behaved as a young cat but his twin was so mean that his handlers named him Osama, a Bolivian zoo official said Monday. Ashlee Pfaff, 27, died from a broken neck and other injuries after the big cat named Jorge attacked her while she was inside an employee hallway that opened into his outdoor enclosure on Saturday, the coroner said.
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Conjoined twins surgically separated at their fused spinal cords were in fair condition Wednesday.
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One of the 10-month-old conjoined twins who were separated in an unusually complex surgery last week died Monday, a Shanghai hospital official said.
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A legendary Chinese nurse who cared for injured U.S. Flying Tigers airmen during World War Two has died at 95, state media said on Thursday.
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A 69-year-old woman who was accidentally injected with a toxic cleaning fluid as she was prepared for surgery at a Seattle area medical center has died as a result, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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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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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.