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For 20 years, Emma White, 38, suffered at least 16 miscarriages and experienced "vanishing twin syndrome," a condition first recognized in the 1940s.

email article Women who conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were more likely to develop eclampsia during pregnancy, researchers found. ART procedures, such as in vitro fertilization, were associated with more than a 50% increased risk of eclampsia (aOR 1.53, 95% CI 1.40-1.67), reported Adriana Facchiano, a medical student at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and colleagues. Multiple gestations -- which occurred in almost 30% of ART pregn...

Share Photo: (Photo : Gustavo Lanes / Unsplash) A global study that gathered the rate of multiple births from 165 countries revealed an all-time high with at least half a million more twins born every year since 2010. The increase is mostly from continents where medically assisted reproduction (MAR) techniques were last introduced after the year 2000 - South Asia and Africa. But scientists believe the world has reached its peak twins rate, which is now expected to go downhill moving forward...

US study has identified fecal microbes role in distinguishing between healthy twins and twins with food allergies.