LIMA, Peru — Doctors successfully separated the fused legs of a Peruvian baby during a risky, nationally televised operation today, and said they hoped the vivacious, bright-eyed girl would be walking ...

LIMA, Peru – Doctors successfully separated the fused legs of a Peruvian baby during a risky, nationally televised operation Wednesday and said they hoped the vivacious, bright-eyed girl would be ...

Doctors successfully separated on Wednesday the fused legs of a Peruvian baby girl known as the "Little Mermaid," in a risky operation they hope will help her to walk by her second birthday.

A Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little Mermaid" because she was born with a rare condition in which her legs are fused, will have surgery this month to try to separate them, doctors said. Nine-month-old ...

LIMA, March 6 (Reuters Life!) - Peru's "Little Mermaid" walked at her first day of kindergarten on Thursday, more than two years after she captured the Andean country's attention when doctors ...

LIMA, Peru Milagros Cerron smiles, babbles and fidgets in the arms of her mother like any healthy 9-month-old, but she is no ordinary baby. Milagros was born with her legs fused in a tight coating of ...

Peruvian surgeons have performed an initial operation to separate the fused legs of a 9-month-old girl with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome," her doctor said ...