St. Louis surgeon transplants ovary
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When Joy Lagos learned she had cancer, she was confident she would beat it. What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and chemotherapy would lead to early menopause and rob her of the chance to have children.
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In a breakthrough that doctors say gives hope to many women who've become infertile after cancer treatments, a woman who received an ovarian tissue transplant gives birth to a healthy baby girl.
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A year after a Frenchwoman received the world's first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more and more sensitivity and facial mobility.
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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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A top New York heart surgeon who was doing a mercy-mission operation on an 8-year-old boy in El Salvador had to scrub out in the middle of the procedure so he could donate his own rare-type blood to the patient.
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A woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a live baby following an ovarian transplant in a breakthrough that could allow doctors to reverse the menopause and restore fertility to women in middle age.
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A woman undergoing cancer treatment has had an ovary transplanted into her left arm, it was revealed today. Despite its unusual new location, the ovary is said to be functioning normally.
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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The Cleveland Clinic has received approval to perform the world&#39;s first human face transplant after 10 months of debating the issue.
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Over the last five decades, surgeons have learned how to transplant virtually every vital organ in the human body.
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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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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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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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A woman who gave birth after a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant snuggled her day-old baby girl Friday and called her &quot;a big miracle.
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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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For two decades, scientists have raced to carry out the first successful ovary transplant in women. The goal has not been to &quot;reverse the menopause&quot;, but to restore