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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...

Webcam Wonder: It's Keenan's World, for Now

ELMHURST, Ill. -- It started innocently enough, with a boy hamming it up in front of a computer webcam. He was doing what teens often do when they stand in front of mirrors: Lip-syncing to a popular song, acting goofy, being himself, as if the world wasn't watching. Except, in this case, the world was watching when...

Brazilian Plastic Surgeon Says He Operated on Gadhafi

SAO PAULO -- It was well past midnight when the Brazilian surgeon says he was escorted deep inside a bunker in the Libyan capital. His assignment: to shave years off Moammar Gadhafi's appearance by removing fat from his belly and injecting it into his wrinkled face. The Libyan leader also got hair plugs. "He told me that...

Texas Man Receives Full Face Transplant [VIDEO]

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...

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Spine-Injured Rats Able To Walk, Climb With Experimental Approach

Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk.

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Alonzo Trinidad, Phoenix 4-Year-Old, Doing Well After Being Impaled In Face By Drumstick

A Phoenix 4-year-old is doing fine after he was impaled in the eye by a drumstick, according to news reports.

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How Will They Fix His Face?

A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre, vicious attack faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction.

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WHERE ARE WE GETTING OUR DRUGS?

California prison officials are trying to keep possession of a scarce lethal injection drug, contesting a federal court order making it illegal to use "foreign manufactured" sodium thiopental.

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Meet The Botox Botticellis (NSFW)

Phillip Toledano 's latest exhibition, titled, "A New Kind Of Beauty" is heading for Los Angeles.

Surgery News From the Web

06/01/12 First regional Trauma Registry in Cyprus - Famagusta... Source: Stockwatch - Cyprus Traumas from accidents have become an epidemic of the century, since they constitute the main reason for limited life expectancy and are the main cause of death in children and young people, according to Cypriot Professor Demetrios Demetriades, Director of the Division of Acute Care Surgery at the LAC+USC Medical Center of the University of Southern California (Los Angeles County + University of Southern California).
06/01/12 Swiss lab experiment allowed spine-injured rats to... Source: The Daily Reporter - Columbus OH Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk.
06/01/12 Anne Hathaway Arm in Sling For Wrist Injury Source: The Post Chronicle - Denville NJ Actress Anne Hathaway is sporting a sling after injuring her right wrist in a "minor accident" over the weekend (26-27May12).
06/01/12 Covidien introduces Endo GIA Radial Reload with... Source: News-Medical.Net Radial Reload with Tri-Stapleâ¢ technology.
06/01/12 Quadruple amputee sailor: âI chose this path; I'm... Source: Globe Gazette - Mason City IA He remembers the explosion that blew him off the ground and took portions of all his limbs.

Background on Surgery

Surgery (from the cheirourgikē, via , meaning "hand work") is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.

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