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From Hollywood Fantasy to the Medical Fast Track

Dec 21st 2009 – 6:40PM
Paramount Pictures

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(Dec. 21) -- The Department of Defense has announced plans to fast-track face transplant surgery, with a $3.4 million grant for surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An estimated 200 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are candidates for the procedure; better body armor and trauma care mean more troops...

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