Twins

PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court says children conceived with frozen sperm from a deceased man can't be considered his heirs. The decision Friday means two Kalamazoo-area siblings won't be collecting Social Security benefits that...

CHICAGO (AP) — Setting foot in a hospital again, Emily and Mike Jordan couldn't help but feel anxious. More than two years before, at age 29, Emily had been diagnosed with cervical cancer. But just before she was to undergo a radical hysterectomy,...

CHICAGO (AP) — One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound. A...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who gave birth to a Michigan woman's baby after a fertility clinic mix-up says she and her husband are new parents again. Carolyn and Sean Savage say a surrogate mother has given birth to their twin daughters....

CHICAGO (AP) — Experts have blamed most of the risk for autism on inherited genes. Now one of the largest studies of twins and autism shifts the focus to the womb. It suggests that the mother's age and health may play a larger role than was thought....

SOUTH BEND — After her twin girls were born, Nicole Blount didn't want to leave the hospital — because her babies couldn't. Born 15 weeks early, Blount's daughters needed the constant medical care that Memorial Hospital's Natal Intensive Care...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows a painstaking surgical technique can help some men deemed infertile because of childhood cancer treatment to become fathers after all. Young men can bank sperm before cancer treatment if they're told that...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having a short cervix increases a pregnant woman's chance of delivering prematurely, and a new study suggests going on bed rest does nothing to allay that risk. Researchers found that women were more than twice as likely to...

Tuesday, May 7 I truly hope you were able to catch "Susan's Story," either last night at 6 or today on WDBJ 7 Mornin'. Susan Bahorich bravely shared her personal struggle with ovarian cancer. I am so proud of her for being open and honest with what she is...

Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com. April 29, 2013 Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...

SAN FRANCISCO -- When the California Supreme Court struck down a same-sex marriage ban in 2008,  the majority ruling reflected a series of decisions the court had already reached in disputes involving gay parents. Gay rights lawyers said this week...

When Whitney Watts of Columbia agreed to bear twins on behalf of an infertile Boston couple two years ago, she entered a murky area of Maryland law. Nothing forbade her from signing a contract to carry babies conceived through in vitro fertilization and...