{"id":1984,"date":"2004-01-22T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/22\/signs-of-the-apocolypse-exhibit-a\/"},"modified":"2004-01-22T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T15:45:28","slug":"signs-of-the-apocolypse-exhibit-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/22\/signs-of-the-apocolypse-exhibit-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocolypse &#8211; Exhibit A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2378'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/twoheadlady.gif\" width=\"299\" height=\"391\" align=\"left\">MIAMI<br \/>\n        (Reuters) &#8211; An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the<br \/>\n        Dominican Republic next month to remove an undeveloped second head from<br \/>\n        a baby girl born with one of the world&#8217;s rarest birth defects, caused<br \/>\n        when a conjoined twin fails to develop in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>          The baby, Rebeca Martinez, was born in mid-December at a hospital in<br \/>\n          Santo Domingo with the head of an undeveloped twin attached to the<br \/>\n          top of her skull, facing upward.<\/p>\n<p>          The infant is otherwise healthy but her brain cannot develop normally<br \/>\n          unless the undeveloped head is removed, said Dr. Santiago Hazim, medical<br \/>\n          director at the CURE  Center for Orthopedic Specialties,<br \/>\n          where the surgery is set for Feb. 6 or 7.<\/p>\n<p>        from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=570&amp;ncid=753&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/nm\/20040121\/sc_nm\/health_conjoined_dc\">Reuters<\/a>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (Reuters) &#8211; An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the Dominican Republic next month to remove an undeveloped second head from a baby girl born with one of the world&#8217;s rarest birth defects, caused when a conjoined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/22\/signs-of-the-apocolypse-exhibit-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}