Woman has double hand transplant
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A Spaniard has become the first woman in the world to receive a double hand transplant.
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A bionic hand, controlled by the patient's mind and muscles, goes on the market
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A patient whose double lung transplant operation was stopped after a plane carrying donor organs crashed into Lake Michigan has received a second set of lungs, doctors announced Friday.
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A South Korean woman paralysed for 20 years is walking again after scientists repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.
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A mother who discovered she had a tumour while pregnant is saved by her unborn twins' kicking.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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NEW YORK  - Transplanting stem cells from a healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal Arthritis &amp; Rheumatism.
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NEW YORK  - A woman undergoing treatment  for cervical cancer had one of her healthy ovaries successfully  transplanted into her upper arm, in order to maintain hormonal  function, a Dutch team reports.
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Â· Mother's move prompted by girl's fertility disorderÂ· Ethics committee approved procedure
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A 4 1/2-month-old north Alabama girl was in stable condition Wednesday after undergoing a heart transplant while her twin remained in the same hospital awaiting the same operation.
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A woman with cancer has had her fertility preserved thanks to doctors who transplanted her ovary into her arm.
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A remarkable operation to replace the skin and hair of a five-year-old burns victim is said to have gone very well.
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A Belgian woman has given birth to the  first baby born after an ovarian tissue transplant, a medical  breakthrough that brings hope to young cancer patients whose  fertility may be damaged by treatment.
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A two-year-old Indian girl  born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs left  hospital smiling on Saturday, nearly six weeks after doctors  removed her extra limbs in a grueling operation.
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A woman who has been paralysed for almost 20 years has started to walk again after scientists injected stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood into her spine.
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A Michigan man who lost his right hand in a work-related accident 30 years ago became the third successful hand transplant recipient in the United States, doctors said Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Infusing patients with  bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow  tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may  one day make many heart transplants unnecessary, Brazilian  researchers said on Friday.