One in five children born with a twin sibling in sub-Saharan Africa dies before the age of five — three times the rate among singletons, said a study Thursday. Almost two-thirds die in the first month of life — often succumbing to the after-effects of a difficult birth or entering the world too early or … Read more
play videoPart of the birth was shown in a video clip posted by the hospital A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy twins – a boy and a girl – in Burgos, northern Spain. The Recoletas Hospital delivered the twins by Caesarean section, the usual method in such rare cases. The unnamed woman … Read more
Comfort Gyamfuah Snr and Comfort Gyamfuah Jnr went missing recently: their story making a worrying headline, especially against the backdrop of earlier fate suffered by other girls. Many wondered whether they too had been used for rituals; fortunately they appeared, albeit with a harrowing story though not as disturbing as when nobody, including their parents, … Read more
Over last weekend, a story was reported of how a young bride abandoned her 41-year-old groom, Julius, at their wedding reception in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State . All pleas by the bewildered husband at the popular Orhunwhorhun Road for the woman to reconsider her decision were to no avail. Her close friend … Read more
The first set of quadruplets from IVF has been successfully delivered by a team of medical experts at the Lapaz community hospital in Accra. The bouncy set, comprising three boys and a girl, were delivered through a caesarean section by a team of doctors, nurses and other professionals led by Dr Fela Adoboe. The hospital … Read more
A fifty-eight-year-old post-menopausal woman on Wednesday delivered a set of twins (two girls) at the Trustcare Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre in Kumasi after undergoing an Intro-Vitro Fertility and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) at the centre. The IVF-ET is a specialised process in medicine that is used to help couples who for various reasons cannot get … Read more