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Varsity to start country's first twin registry
17 Apr 2008, 0218 hrs IST,Pushpa Narayan,TNN

CHENNAI: How many twins does the city have? How many are identical? How many are not? Do identical twins have identical diseases? The place for these answers might just be the department of genetics at the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University. Read more.....

Twins separated by surgery are returning to Costa Rica

 San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA, January 23, 2008

Yurelia and Fiorella Arocha-Arias, two-year-old conjoined twins who will undergo seperation surgery at Lucile Packard Children's ... Read More....

 Twins Sisters from the city commissioned IAF officers

 Tribune News Service Chandigarh, December 19, 2007

 Twins from Chandigarh created history when they were simultaneously commissioned as officers into
 the Indian Air Force. Flying Officers Namrita Kaur and Suprita Kaur were inducted into the IAF as
 fighter controllers in the ground duty branch.
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 Seeing Double: Doctor Delivers Four Sets of Twins in 24 Hours

Monday, November 26, 2007

He has been an obstetrician-gynecologist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center for 19 years, but he said he has never experienced a 24-hour on-call period like the one he put in on Friday and Saturday, when he delivered four sets of twins. Read More ....

 Indian doctors separate toddler from conjoined twin

ABC NEWS -Posted Wed Nov 7, 2007 8:31pm

Indian doctors say they have successfully separated a two-year-old girl from her conjoined twin and reconstructed her body after a marathon operation at a Bangalore hospital. Read more .........

Cheshire school specializes in Twins

 The Time of India - India, Delhi September 21, 2007

A Cheshire school has 20 sets of twins on its rolls and now specializes in teaching twins. Four new sets of twins have been enrolled at the Grange School in Hartford, near Northwich, this month. Ariel Leese-Jones, whose girls, Athena and Bianca, have just started at the school, said her daughters felt more comfortable with other twins in the playground. “They are in the same class and this seems to have worked really well,” she said. Stephen Bennett, the headmaster, said his staff always treated pupils as individuals and were not afraid to separate brothers and sisters if they felt they would benefit. “Form teachers very rarely get the twins mixed up, but it certainly can happen,” he added.

 

55-year-old woman deliver twins
Times of India - India august 27,2007
CHENNAI: In a rare case, a 55-year-old woman from Karnataka delivered twins in Chennai on Monday after remaining childless for about 28 years. ...
 

Docs separate conjoined twins
Times of India - India August 24,2007
KOLKATA: City doctors performed a rare surgery on Friday, separating a pair of conjoined twins at Medical College Hospital. The surgery was complicated as ...
 

Separated South Asian twins prepare for independence anniversary ...
International Herald Tribune - France August 13, 2007
AP NEW DELHI: Twins Azhar Shervani and Zafar Hameed grew up separated by one of the world's most dangerous rivalries. And this week, as India and Pakistan ...
 

Twins stable after separation
Scotsman - United Kingdom Mon 23 Jul 2007
Doctors separated the twins' livers, repositioned their hearts and rebuilt their breastbones. Both were said to be in a relatively stable condition after ...
 

Chinese doctors separate eight-day-old conjoined twins
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom, Thursday 19th July 2007
It is rare for the operation to be carried out in twins so young, but doctors say one or both would have died if the surgery had been delayed

Triple Twins
WRCB-TV - Chattanooga, TN, USA, 16th July 2007
Two by two, twins keep coming to a family outside Philadelphia, and their family tree now has twins times three. Cherise Brown says by the grace of God and ...
 

Its boy and girl twins for `mom` Gurinder Chadha (Film Director-"Bend it Like Beckham , Bride & Prejudice")
Zee News - Noida, India
Washington, June 9: British director, Gurinder Chadha gave birth to twins at a hospital in London, where she underwent an emergency Caesarean section on ...
 

World's first twins born to two different women
Daily Mail - UK
Born minutes apart and with almost identical looks, there seems little to set Lauren and Hannah Bernaba apart from any other pair of newborn twins. ...

 

ON POINTE: Twins share a great bond in their love for dance
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
That attitude is exactly what the twins' mom, Alison Mann, likes to hear. As their first dance teacher (Mann runs Music Theatre and Dance in Jackson and ...
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Twins, 105, oldest on the planet
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Robertson is one-half of the oldest living pair of twins in the world. Robertson and her fraternal twin, Sarah Jeanmougin, turned 105 on Tuesday. ...
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Newspaper wins award for coverage of Carlsen twins
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
The twins, Belle and Abby, were born attached at the diaphragm, pancreas and liver and shared a common bile duct and part of an intestine. ...
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Gave Birth to Twins at 60
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
At the beginning of the year a 67-year-old Spanish woman gave birth to twins and is considered the oldest woman in the world to give birth after in-vitro ...
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Twins, even in their Mathematics scores
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
For twins Nitin and Vipin Bansal, the resemblance is more than just visual. Studying in Class XII in the same school, these Ramjas Senior Secondary School ...
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BBC News: 05th April 07

Groundbreaking Conjoined Twins Operation: Nine-month-old conjoined twin girls who were born with connected livers and hearts have been successfully separated in groundbreaking surgery. read more.... click here

BBC News:

India's twins pose DNA puzzle: Scientists from around the world are flocking to a small Indian village to try to find out why an extraordinarily large number of identical twins are being born there. Read more.... Click here

BBC News:

Indian Conjoined Twins: Conjoined twins Saba, left, and Farah could soon have surgery to separate them. Read More .....click here

Times of India.com: [ 27 Mar, 2007 2258hrs ISTREUTERS ]

Twins of 3rd kind: Semi-identical: WASHINGTON: Doctors on Monday said they have identified a third type of twins — somewhere between identical and fraternal — after performing extensive genetic tests on two young children.
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Guptara twins bring world of Calaspia to Europe: The two Indian 18-year-olds wrote a fantasy novel called “Conspiracy of Calaspia”. Already famous back home, the two Christian brothers are about to make their name in Europe. Publication rights have already been sold in many countries. Read more.....click here

 

 

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