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Boston Hospital Performs Second Full Face Transplant

BOSTON -- Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed the nation's second full-face transplant, less than a month after the first. A team of more than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital worked for more than 14 hours last week to replace the full facial area of 30-year-old Mitch Hunter, of...

Boston Hospital Performs Nation's First Full Face Transplant

BOSTON -- A Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the nation's first full face transplant at a Boston hospital. More than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital led by plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac performed the 15-hour operation...

Woman Whose Chimp Mauled Her Friend Dies

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (May 25) -- A Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend last year has died, her attorney said Tuesday. Sandy Herold died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, lawyer Robert Golger said. She was 72. Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, went berserk in February 2009 after...

Chimp Attack Victim Wants Face, Hand Transplant

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Jan. 25) -- An Ohio hospital has told the family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that it cannot perform a face and hand transplant for her, a family attorney said Monday. Charla Nash's family is looking into alternative facilities after the Cleveland Clinic said it...

Did Oprah Go Too Far?

(Nov. 12) -- Charla Nash has been mauled by a chimpanzee, and now we can only hope she won't be mauled by the media and general public. I would not even begin to criticize the tone and substance of Oprah Winfrey's interview with the 56-year-old woman who was beaten beyond recognition just nine months ago by her friend's...

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04/23/12 Charla Nash Video; Officials to Deny chimp victim's... Source: The Post Chronicle - Denville NJ Charla Nash Video; Officials to Deny chimp victim's effort to sue state?
04/20/12 State Fights Suit In Chimp Case Source: The Connecticut Law Tribune on Law.com (ALM) The story of Charla Nash, who was mauled by her friend's chimpanzee, Travis, three years ago in Stamford is well-documented.