LILIYA Bachinskaya, 39, lives in Sacramento, California, with husband Anatoliy, 39, a truck driver, and their seven children.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.