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World's First Full Face Transplant Patient Speaks to Reporters [PHOTO]

(July 26) -- The recipient of the world's first full face transplant, a 31-year-old man known only as "Oscar," has made his first public appearance. At a press conference today, it was announced that Oscar is being released from the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, where the surgery and initial recovery took...

Spanish Surgeons Perform First Full Face Transplant

(April 22) -- Surgeons in Barcelona, Spain, have completed the world's first full face transplant, only five years after a woman in France became the first to undergo a partial version of the procedure. The Spanish patient has not been identified, but doctors say he is a young man who was severely injured in an accident...