Breadcrumb Home With time ticking away, clinicians scramble to save newborn twins from the disease that took their brother Friday, February 15, 2019 https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/05/newborn-twins-menkes-disease-experimental-c… In the weeks after twins Charlie and Kolton Martin were born in December, a University of Iowa medical geneticist and her team went to extraordinary lengths as they raced to obtain the medication needed to save their lives.