It is rare for twins conjoined the way that Abby and Brittany are to survive into adulthood, but despite this they are in ...

Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his "parasitic" twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped ...

Two baby girls who were conjoined at their heads were ... were born connected at the head, an extremely rare condition known as craniopagus twins — are now recovering while their parents ...

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel appear to be living their best married life with the former's husband Josh Bowling.

The little toddler was taken to hospital in Afghanistan with a swollen stomach that was thought to be a tumour - but doctors ...

Conjoined fetuses are a rare type of identical twins that share a placenta and an amniotic sac, when the embryo divides at 13-15 days from conception. The incidence ranges from 1/50,000-1/100,000 ...

A parasitic twin is an extremely rare type of conjoined twin. While research is limited, experts suggest that this condition doesn’t cause severe complications. But it requires surgery — often ...

Now, surgeons at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have managed to remove the remnants of his parasitic twin through a “rarest of rare” surgery and given him a chance to live ...

They got a second opinion, and the hospital told them that though the boys had a rare condition, they could be separated successfully. Conjoined twins occur roughly once in every 35,000-80,000 births.

A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival. They are extremely rare, with less than one case occurring per 100,000 births. The teenager ...