Ben Carson
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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official serving as the National Nutrition Advisor at the Department of Agriculture since 2025. A memb
Official portrait, 2025
Undated portrait of Carson during his medical career
Carson and President George W. Bush in 2008
Ben and Candy Carson with George and Laura Bush in 2008
Ladan and Laleh Bijani
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Ladan and Laleh Bijani were Iranian conjoined twin sisters. They were joined at the head and died soon after their complicated surgical separation. Coincidentally, the twins were born a century to the
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…on craniopagus Zambian twins Joseph and Luka Banda, which resulted in a normal neurological outcome. Two sets of twins died, including Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani. Another separation resulted in the death of one twin and the survival of the other, who is legally blind and struggles to walk. According to The…
Ladan (left) and Laleh (right) Bijani in a press conference in June 2003, about one month before their deaths