In one of the most comprehensive analyses of immune function performed to date, researchers analyzed blood samples from 105 sets
of healthy twins.
The pregnancy went smoothly, resulting
in healthy twin boys that were biologically unrelated to any of the three involved adults.
He said that he would have liked to have a twin that ate only broccoli and water, in the same caloric amounts as he drinks Coke, and see
how healthy that twin was.
Following months of infertility treatments, Meg Watwood cried in joy when her first ultrasound
revealed healthy twin babies.
Her positive pregnancy test in March 2017 was a happy surprise, as was the news soon after that she was
carrying healthy twins.
Having recruited a group
of healthy twins from 20 to 30 years old, Paul Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles, made these pictures of their brains» white matter.
Dr. Joan A. Friedman, a psychotherapist, twin expert and author of «
Emotionally Healthy Twins» agrees, noting that it's smart to make sure each child gets some time without the other.
What type of nutrition does your body really need to foster
a healthy twin pregnancy?
These minor things replaced the relief of
a healthy twin birth with a nagging twinge of worry.
She is the author of «Emotionally
Healthy Twins: A New Philosophy for Parenting Two Unique Children».
I hold him a little longer and let
my healthy twin wait.
In April of this year
our healthy twin got a cold.
Here's what you need to know to guide you through
a healthy twin pregnancy to get ready for your two (or more) little bundles of joy.
Gut germs that were unusually abundant in people with MS changed white blood cells in a way that made them more likely to attack the body's own cells, including neurons, one study reported on Monday; the other experiment found that gut germs from people with MS made mice more likely to develop the disease than did gut germs from their identical but
healthy twins.
In the second study, scientists led by Hartmut Wekerle of Germany's Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology examined 34 pairs of twins in which only one of each had MS. Transplanting gut microbes from the twins into lab mice that develop MS, they found that more of the mice receiving the MS microbiome developed a mouse version of MS than did mice receiving transplants from
the healthy twin.
In a related study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in
their healthy twins.
Moreover, in the case of identical twins who are discordant for schizophrenia, the child of
the healthy twin is as likely to be schizophrenic as the child of the schizophrenic twin.
The beauty of the co-twin method is that
the healthy twin serves as the control for the sick twin.
Smith found that 42 enzymes changed in
the healthy twin, on average, compared with 339 in the kwashiorkor twin.
The mice with the bacteria from the child with kwashiorkor lost, then gained and lost again, more weight than the mice with bacteria from
the healthy twin.
At 37 weeks, I gave birth to
our healthy twins, Emmylou and Maggie.
We want to help our community give their dogs the care they want to provide them, which will lead to
a healthier Twin Cities overall.
Validity of the zygosity questionnaire and characteristics of zygosity - misdiagnosed twin pairs in
the Healthy Twin Study of Korea.