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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...

Double Hand Transplant Documented Live on Twitter

(Aug. 25) -- Modern medicine, meet 140-character-long microblogging. On Wednesday, doctors at Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare in Louisville, Ky., completed the state's first double hand transplant following 17½ hours of complicated surgery. Even more unusual than the operation itself, however, was the fact that...