Cleveland Clinic Plans First Human Face Transplant
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Following 10 months of debate on the medical, ethical, and psychological issues involved, the Cleveland Clinic&#39;s review board has approved its doctors&#39; petition to be the first institution worldwide to perform a human face transplant, the Associated Press
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands say in a new medical journal article that they are ready to perform a face transplant.
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Doctors in Germany have rebuilt a man's face after growing a new jaw on his back.
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A new implantable device can extract stem cells for therapeutic transplant or program cancer cells to die.
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CLEVELAND, OHIO - A clinic in Ohio says it is about to start screening patients for what could be the world&#39;s first face transplant.
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Researchers from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they are ready to perform a face transplant. The procedure involves replacing someone&#39;s entire face with a dead donor&#39;s face.
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Advance could eventually allow women to provide their own tissue for transplants and disease therapy.
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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Doctors in Leeds carry out the NHS's first adult-to-adult live donor liver transplant.
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Surgeons completed a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first operation where the donor and recipient met through a commercial Web site.
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Doctors in Italy have performed the world's first lung transplant on an HIV patient, a medical institute in the southern city of Palermo said on Friday.
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A woman transplant patient came face to face with her old heart Tuesday at an exhibition she hopes will increase public awareness about organ donations.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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A prototype artificial skin which can be used to heal wounds has been developed by British researchers.
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A novel 3-D imaging technique provides a first look at the internal structure of human skin cells.
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The recipient of the first partial face transplant has recovered so well she can to go out without people noticing her scars, her surgeon says.
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Fifty years ago today, Boston surgeon Joseph Murray transplanted a kidney from Ronald Herrick into his identical twin, Richard. It was the first time an organ from one