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Stale of the century! 200-year-old BISCUIT baked in honour of conjoined twins known as the ‘Biddenden Maids’ is set to fetch £150 at auction The crunchy bite depicts the charitable sisters from the 1100s Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst were known as the Biddenden Maids They left land to church so rent could pay for food … Read more
Conjoined twins who were expected to die after birth have defied the odds by starting primary school four years later. Ibrahima Ndiaye, 50, brought his daughters Marieme and Ndeye from Senegal to the UK when they were seven months old in 2017 to seek help from Great Ormond Street Hospital. The twins have separate brains, hearts and … Read more
One-day-old twin sisters conjoined by the stomach and sharing an umbilical cord are successfully separated in China The tiny siblings in China’s Xinjiang underwent a two-hour operation on Friday They had been born sharing the breastbone, abdomen wall and umbilical cord 13 medical workers teamed up to perform the procedure, which was a success The babies … Read more
The parents of ten-month-old conjoined twins who were born sharing a skull and a brain are opening up about how they are adjusting after the girls were separated during a ‘one-in-a-million’ surgery last month. Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy of Sacramento, California, were born on December 30, 2019 as craniopagus twins, meaning they were joined at … Read more
A former conjoined twin has become a TikTok star by educating people about her rare condition, nine years after her sister passed away. Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Garcia, 22, from Idaho Falls was born attached to her sister Micheala and the duo shared a pair of legs and kidneys, a bladder, and intestines. They underwent an operation at eight … Read more
Doctors at the University of Michigan separated one-year-old conjoined twin sisters – born hugging each other – just 14 months after they were born. Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin of Petersburg, Michigan, each had their own arms and legs and heart, but their livers were connected, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital said Friday. The nearly 11-hour surgery … Read more
Conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back and who had ‘one of the rarest and most complex forms of cranial and cerebral fusion’ doctors had seen have successfully been separated. The two-year-old sisters Ervina and Prefina, were born in 2018 in Mbaiki, Central African Republic, with their heads attached and sharing critical blood vessels around their … Read more
The world’s oldest set of conjoined twins, Ronnie and Donnie Gaylon, 68, died on July 4, in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon have been turning heads since they were born on October 28, 1951 to parents Eileen and Wesley Gaylon, who were not expecting twins, much less conjoined twins. They were healthy … Read more
Viewers have praised ‘inspirational’ conjoined twins who refused to be separated as they appeared on Channel 4’s Two Sisters, One Body last night. The documentary follows Carmen and Lupita, 18, from Connecticut, as they prepare to leave school and navigate adulthood – which includes learning to drive. The sisters, who are joined at the abdomen, were only expected to … Read more
A world-renowned NYC pediatric neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins has died from coronavirus. Dr. James T. Goodrich, 73, died on Monday after complications related to Covid-19, the hospital where he worked announced. He separated twins Jadon and Anais McDonald four years ago at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City in a 27-hour … Read more