No change over weekend

(Note to Editors: No hospital personnel are available for interviews.
The next media update will be distributed by fax on Friday.)

Both Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez remain in serious condition with stable vital signs in the pediatric intensive care unit at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital.

UCLA doctors are cautiously optimistic about the twins’ long-term prospects for recovery. Surgeons separated the 1-year-old Guatemalan girls, born joined at the head, during a nearly 23-hour surgery on Aug. 6.