Doctors at the General Hospital in the Greek city of Larissa said yesterday, Thursday, that they had successfully removed an embryonic parasitic twin from the stomach of a 9-year-old girl.The girl, whose family asked that she not be named, was suffering from stomach pains, which the doctors established were due to a tumour growing on the right side of her belly. She has since made a full recovery, said the hospital authorities.

The fact that 500,000 mostly low-income women worldwide die during childbirth every year is "[o]bscene," but the experiences of staff from the nongovernmental organization Partners in Health in Haiti show how a "vast improvement" can be made, PIH founder Paul Farmer and PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl write in a

About 28 million women in the U.S. are at risk of an unintended pregnancy annually because of incorrect or inconsistent contraceptive use, according to a study released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, Reuters reports.