The rate of stillbirth is around 60%. A parasitic twin is a rare condition that is closely related to conjoined twins. In this situation, a baby is born with an underdeveloped twin attached to its ...

Two-year-old Lakshmi who stole national headlines when she was subjected to a marathon surgery to remove her parasitic twin is now hopefully, out of danger. Doctor Sharan Patil and his team of 36 ...

Rose, who depended on my heart to pump the blood through her body because she couldn't do it on her own, was diagnosed as a parasitic conjoined twin. We were separated at three days old.

The team found conjoined twins of the ‘Heteropagus’ (the Greek word pagos means "that which is fixed") or asymmetrical type where there was a union of the mid-trunk from umbilicus downwards. This very ...

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Twins are developing ever-thicker coats and have got better at regulating their body temperatures Panda Watch is a weekly ...

Ivermectin is a medication that treats some parasitic diseases. There are two types: one that doctors prescribe for certain health conditions in people and another that veterinarians prescribe ...

That is, until a PhD student in Mississippi started looking at the bugs in his backyard. Parasitic wasps lay their eggs in or on a live host, where they gestate until they hatch. Almost 200 ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. New research ...