News & Views

In an incredibly rare surgery that involved an equally rare congenital abnormality, two-year-old twin girls, Ervina and Prefina Bangalo, from Mbaiki, Central African Republic, had their skulls separated by doctors and nurses from the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Italy, CNN reported this month.

Rare conjoined twins have been separated at a world-leading hospital in London, surgeons have announced.

Twin girls who were born joined at the head, and separated last year by a team at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, have returned home to Pakistan.

 High-tech science helped doctors in England successfully separate conjoined twins. Surgery to separate conjoined twins is complicated and dangerous but the team in England used cutting-edge virtual reality and 3D printing to plan the separation.

Here is another chance to see five of the best health and lifestyle stories from the last week.

Twins Safa and Marwa Ullah, who had been born conjoined, leaving the hospital in London this month with their mother and grandfather.

We’ve all had our high-pressure moments, but rarely are they a case of life and death. 

RARE twins born joined at the head have been separated by surgeons in at a London hospital.