MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'identical twins'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:21 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225260&cid=t_170850_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FJNPmhBuhvkQ%2F On a day of historic destruction we look to provide some more light-hearted medical trivia to ease you into the weekend...with questions on Ayahuasca, Charles Darwin, identical twins and CVS (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225260 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:12:48 +0100 4225260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139012&cid=t_170850_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fidentical-twins-different-birthdays%2F Two baby boys are making the news rounds and people are talking. Not only are they identical twins, and not only were they born on two different days, they were born in two different years. Some people say they were born in two different decades, but technically, the new decade doesn’t begin until the *end* of 2010, but I digress. Identical twin boys, born to Margarita and Juan Velasco of Tampa, Florida, were born on December 31, 2009 and January 1, 2010, just minutes apart. The boys appear to be healthy, but because they were born, by Cesarean section, 10 weeks early, they are in a neonatal intensive care unit until they are big enough and strong enough to cope on their own. Identical twins are monozygotic twins, while fraternal (not identical, can be boy/girl) are dizygotic twins. ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139012 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:09:23 +0100 3139012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2842707&cid=t_170850_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2Fla_qzM5FL_A%2F Two middle-age women, Sue and Sheila,  are born as identical twins, but one of them is aging faster by 10 years. Two identical twin brothers are so alike their hair went grey at the same time, but one of them cannot tolerate pain as much as the other. And there is a six-year old girl who was diagnosed with leukemia but her sister is completely healthy. Identical twins are monozygotic – they come from the same single egg that split early in development, and therefore share the same exact DNA, so we expect them to look alike, have the same personality and experience life the same way. But scientists say that each individual is still very much unique from the other. Why? It’s a process called epigenetic  – when non-genetic factors cause the gene to behave or be expresse... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2842707 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:59:24 +0100 2842707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473707&cid=t_170850_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FibE8_UNvc7g%2F (Editor's Note: interviewing Richard Nisbett, author of the excellent recent book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count, was in my To Do list. I then found that fellow blogger David DiSalvo was faster than I was and did a great job, so here we bring you David's interview and take). While the debate over intelligence rages on many fronts, the battle over the importance of heredity rages loudest. It’s easy to see why. If the camp that argues intelligence is 75 to 85 percent genetically determined is correct, then we’re faced with some tough questions about the role of education. If intelligence is improved very little by schools, and if the IQ of the majority of the population will remain relatively unchanged no matter how well schools perform, then should school... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473707 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:27:06 +0100 2473707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1251106&cid=t_170850_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fone-snowflake-at-a-time%2F They say no two snowflakes are alike. I’d argue that there are no two people alike either. That while there may be many similarities between two people, no two people on this earth have the exact same similar life experiences, personalities, upbringing, brains, reasoning, thoughts or emotions. Not exactly an earth shattering revelation, now is it? Except that, until this week, we had long thought that identical twins were genetically identical. Not so, according to new research this week, which showed that due to copy number variations, genetically identical twins are not so much. So now that that long held conventional wisdom has been blown away, we have some revisiting to do. Because researchers for decades have designed studies which looked at whether something was more influe... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1251106 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:36:18 +0100 1251106 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1250199&cid=t_170850_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fwhat-were-talking-about-this-week-10%2F Ethical Issues Surrounding Personal Health Records: Google Health and the Cleveland Clinic’s announced a partnership this week and everyone’s buzzing about privacy, portability, and all things Google. “HIPAA” has officially entered the public vernacular. David Hamilton outlines privacy and other ethical issues at Venture Beat. Steve Lohr adds more at his NYTimes blog, Bits. [...] (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1250199 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:11:13 +0100 1250199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1060004&cid=t_170850_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F11%2F29%2Fmaternal-flu-linked-to-schizophrenia%2F You may have missed this if you don’t regularly read The Washington Post, but staff writer Shankar Vedantam wrote an excellent article describing how recent research into schizophrenia is increasingly pointing to maternal infections during the first and second trimester of pregnancy — especially flu infections: That’s because the newest studies suggest the culprit may not be infections such as the flu per se, but pregnant mothers’ immune reactions to such infections. Current guidelines recommend that pregnant women get a flu shot — and the point of the flu vaccine is to set off an immune reaction. If the risk for schizophrenia is increased as a result of maternal antibodies, might protecting mom and baby from the flu raise the risk the child could get schizo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1060004 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:32:37 +0100 1060004