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'Inseparable' Twins, 73, Found Dead Together

John Johnson — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:07:08 CST

Police in California are trying to unravel the puzzling deaths of identical twin sisters, reports the AP . Patricia and Joan Miller of South Lake Tahoe were entertainers as kids in the 1950s, performing on TV and before the troops, but they turned into recluses for most of the last 40...

Docs to Remove Twin From Tot's Stomach

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:14:58 CST

Doctors planned to operate yesterday to remove something unusual from a Peruvian toddler's belly—his twin. The partially formed fetus weighs over a pound and is nine inches long, according to Dr. Carlos Astocondor. The parasitic twin has no brain, lungs, or heart but utilizes the boy's blood supply The...

Teen Mom Star Pregnant With Twins —Again

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:40:00 CST

A Teen Mom star is going to be a teen mom again: Leah Messer is pregnant with her second set of twins at the age of 19, according to In Touch . Messer has told friends she's "thrilled," and hopes the coming set of babies will help her nab her own...

Twin Birth Rate Up 76% in 30 Years

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:54:48 CST

The number of twins has surged in the past 30 years, according to a new government study. The twin birth rate went from 189 out of 10,000 births (or 1 out of 53) in 1980 to 333 out of 10,000 births (or 1 out of 30) in 2009—...

Conjoined Twins Separated

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:44:16 CDT

Sisters who spent the first two years of their lives joined at the chest and abdomen have been successfully separated. Yesterday's nearly 10-hour operation at a Stanford hospital began at 6:30am; by about noon Angelina and Angelica Sabuco were no longer conjoined. Some 20 physicians spent the rest of...

Meet Mariah's Twin Babies

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:57:05 CDT

Mariah Carey introduced the world to her new family last night and admitted it was "really tough" to endure a miscarriage before she became pregnant with her twins, ABC News reports. “The main thing I did that was tough, was to go on progesterone like every month… and then when...

Mom With Two Uteruses Has Twins

John Johnson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:33:55 CDT

A woman in Florida has pulled off what her obstetrician figures to be a 1-in-5-million longshot by giving birth to twins, reports the St. Petersburg Times . Why the long odds? Andreea Barbosa has a rare condition called uterus didelphys, meaning she has not one uterus but two. That in itself...

The One Kind of Abortion Pro-Choicers Don't Like

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:25:05 CDT

Pro-choicers are in favor of abortion rights—but when a mother-to-be selectively aborts just one of her two fetuses, even pro-choicers get uncomfortable. A recent New York Times Magazine article on the increased demand for twin reductions highlights this discomfort. In reactions to the piece, a blogger wondered if such...

Twin Brothers Die Hours Apart

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:47:50 CDT

Talk about two hearts almost beating as one: Twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago, and they died hours apart in Florida on Wednesday. The Buffalo-born twins were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. They spent 35 years working together on...