Face-off: Docs set for face transplant
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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands says in a new medical journal article that it is ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.
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A medical clinic in Ohio will soon start screening patients for what is being described as the world&#39;s first face transplant. The Cleveland Clinic received approval from a review board on October 15, to perform the controversial procedure.
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Far-reaching legislation to tighten the use of human tissue will come into force on Friday.
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A woman transplant patient came face to face with her old heart Tuesday at a British exhibition she hopes will increase public awareness about organ donations.
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A wrongfully convicted man once known as the "snaggletooth killer" will soon have the facial feature that landed him on death row corrected by ABC's "Extreme Makeover," the TV show's producers said on Friday.
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Japanese doctors have used thin sheets of cheek tissue to restore vision in people with a painful eye condition caused by damaged corneas.
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Today more than 5,500 people in the UK are waiting for an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their life. Most are waiting for a kidney, others for a heart, lung or liver transplant.
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There has been a big increase in the number of people undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery.
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In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  -- 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, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.    "There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done...
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A British-Russian team of surgeons and scientists say they are testing a remarkable new polymer implant which is helping them to rebuild the lives of children born with terrible facial deformities.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had &quot;ethical concerns&quot; about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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A reform of how the private cosmetic surgery industry is regulated and operated is to be unveiled.
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Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also could someday take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before.
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The search for recipients for the first face transplants may be relatively easy. More difficult, experts say, will be finding people willing to donate their faces after death.