Search All NYTimes.com. Anne Wolf Cochran, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cochran of Falls Church, Va., was married yesterday to William Charles Hamilton, the son of Mrs. Joseph S. Iseman of Rye, N.Y., and the late William H. Hamilton.
1 Conjoined twins occur in approximately one in 50,000 births, and the majority do not survive (they are stillborn).
According to the March of Dimes, neural tube defects happen in about 3,000 pregnancies each year in the United States. About 1,500 babies are born in the U.S. with spina bifida, the most common NTD, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.