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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...

Health Crisis Leads California Woman to Her Life's Work [VIDEO]

Professional dancer Ava Kaufman discovered her true life's work after a successful heart transplant helped her survive a devastating illness. Terrified that she wouldn't live long enough to raise her 12-year-old daughter, Jade, the California woman promised God that if she survived the transplant, she'd spend the rest of...

USC Hospital Halts Transplants After Patient Gets Wrong Kidney

The University of Southern California University Hospital has temporarily shut down its kidney transplant program after a patient in need of a transplant accidentally received a kidney designated for someone else. The Los Angeles Times reports that the private Los Angeles hospital voluntarily halted transplants on Jan. 29...

Double Hand Transplant Patient: 'I Feel Fantastic'

Michael Hayman, Louisville Courier Journal/AP

(Sept. 2) -- The recipient of cutting-edge double hand transplant surgery is speaking to the media today and reporting that he can already wiggle his fingers and is able to form half a fist. Dr. Richard Edwards, a 55-year-old chiropractor, suffered severe burns to both hands in a 2006 fire. His surgery, only the third...

Background on Transplantation medicine

Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ.

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