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"Conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are stable and progressing well two weeks after the operation to separate them, doctors say.
The boys, from Cork, underwent the 14-hour operation at London's Great Ormond
Street Hospital on Wednesday 7 April."
"Conjoined twin boys, who were born in London in December, have gone back to the family's home in Cork, Ireland.
Hassan and Hussein are "feeding well", according to their parents, Angie and Azzedine Benhaffaf. "
"These are the first pictures of conjoined twins, Hussan and Hussein Benhaffaf, who were born six weeks ago at University College Hospital in London. "
"This is the first picture of seven-week-old conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf.
The boys, who were born at London University College Hospital, are feeding well and gaining weight ahead of surgery to try to separate them later this year. "
"Conjoined twins have been born at a hospital in London, it has been announced. "
A mother has given birth to conjoined twins dubbed the "snake babies" as they are attached at the waist.
The father of conjoined twins Hope and Faith describes the "hardest moment" of his life minutes after he told doctors to let one of his daughters die in a new documentary.
in list: The Telegraph Health News 02/09
French surgeons have performed a rare operation to separate conjoined twin boys joined at the throat and stomach.
A woman pregnant with conjoined twins who have one body and two heads has been backed by a charity in her decision not to seek an abortion.
Lisa Chamberlain, 25, a Roman Catholic, had a scan last week that showed she was carrying dicephalous embryos.
A woman pregnant with a rare type of conjoined twins has pledged not to have an abortion, despite doctors giving them just a 20 per cent chance of survival.
A woman pregnant with a rare form of conjoined twins plans to press ahead with the pregnancy.
Mother-to-be Lisa Chamberlain had a scan last week which showed her embryo had two heads and one body - making them dicephalus twins.
Laura and Aled Williams had always known it was going to be a difficult Christmas. Far from family and friends, and with their surviving conjoined twin, Faith, lying in intensive care, this was neither the time nor the place for celebrating.
But even they couldn’t have predicted just how bleak it would turn out to be. For on Christmas Day afternoon, as families everywhere were opening presents and preparing lunch, Aled and Laura were saying goodbye to Faith.
The parents of conjoined baby girls who died less than a month after being born have defended their decision to go ahead with the births.
"We gave them a chance," father Aled Williams, 28, told the Mail on Sunday, while mother Laura Williams, 18, said she would "do it all again".
A conjoined twin who had survived 11 hours of surgery to separate her from sister died on Christmas Day, it was announced yesterday.
Faith Williams died "from the complexities of her condition" 23 days after her sister, Hope, died in an operation to separate the pair of infants. Doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital had given Faith a 50% chance of survival.
Separating conjoined twins can be a complex and high-risk surgical procedure. For parents, separation can require harrowing ethical judgments - on rare occasions, for example, the procedure will mean sacrificing one twin's life to save another.
Twins can be joined in a variety of ways and the specifics of each operation to separate them depend heavily upon which vital organs, if any, the twins share.
Faith Williams, the conjoined twin who was separated from her twin at the beginning of December, died on Christmas Day. Her sister, Hope, had died during the operation to separate them.
The pair were born on November 26, joined at the chest, and doctors had warned their parents that the chances of survival were small.
The death of a child in any circumstances is a tragedy, yet the odds were against either Faith or Hope Williams, the conjoined twins, surviving after their separation.
Although the operation to separate the babies, born a month ago, was a technical success, it was impossible to tell how they would fare after surgery.
The conjoined twin Faith Williams died on Christmas Day, three weeks after losing her sister, Hope, during an operation to separate them.
The pair were born on November 26, joined at the chest, and doctors had warned their parents that their chances of survival were not great.
Conjoined twin Faith Williams, who had been fighting for life since the death of her sister Hope, died on Christmas Day in her teenage mother's arms.
Great Ormond Street Hospital announced the end to the story of the girls, saying it was 'sad but not unexpected'.
Last night, a friend of parents Laura and Aled Williams said the couple had taken solace in the fact that Faith had died on Christmas Day.
Conjoined twin Faith Williams died on Christmas Day, 23 days after the death of her sister.
Faith and sister Hope were joined at the chest when they were born on 26 November. Hope died in an operation to separate them on 2 December.
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