Woman's 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 little girl just a week shy of her second birthday has become the youngest person in the United States ever to receive a "piggyback" heart transplant, a procedure that involved implanting a second heart into her tiny chest.
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Delonte West underwent surgery on his broken right hand yesterday at New England Baptist Hospital. Dr. Drew Terrano and team physician Arnold Scheller performed the operation in which a fracture of the fourth metacarpal was reduced and held with two screws.
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A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and has gradually regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported yesterday in the first detailed account of her progress.
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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 & Rheumatism.
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A bionic hand, controlled by the patient's mind and muscles, goes on the market
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&quot;It is a dream&quot; said Ouarda Touirat, smiling at the cameras yesterday. The first woman in the world to give birth following an ovarian transplant cradled her new-born baby and added: &quot;It is what I have always wanted.
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Keith Felcyn, a retired senior editor of BusinessWeek magazine who lives in Greenwich, Conn., had not been able to fully extend the little and ring fingers of his left hand for 20 years. But last month, it took 20 minutes for a doctor in Ontario, Ore., to reverse his Dupuytrenâs disease, a benign but ultimately disabling disorder in which the fascia of the hand thickens and draws the fingers permanently into the palm.
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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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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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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
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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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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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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 woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children.
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A Belgian woman who became infertile from cancer treatment gave birth yesterday after having her ovarian tissue removed and frozen before chemotherapy and transplanted later, the first