German man regrows jawbone in his back in surgical breakthrough
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PARIS  - A German man has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years, thanks to a pioneering surgical technique in which the patient incubated a replacement jawbone in a muscle on his back.
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A piece of jawbone found in a Devon cave is to be re-examined by scientists to see if it is from a Neanderthal man.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich â-fter surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an âambitious
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, researchers describe a man whose jaw was successfully reconstructed using a bone that was grown from scratch under the muscles in his back.
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Two men are cleared of deadly skin cancer by genetically modifying their immune cells.
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A 42-year-old man who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds was recovering Wednesday at a Sioux Falls, SD, hospital after gastric bypass surgery.
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A body part allegedly stolen in the US has been implanted in a patient in the UK, a hospital confirms.
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Surgeons remove part of monster tumour Chinese surgeons today removed around 10kg (22lb) of a monster tumour which had transformed 31-year-old Huang Chuncai into the country's homegrown Joseph Merrick, Reuters reports.â¦
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The majority of male patients undergoing sex-change surgery say they are happy with the results.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth ...
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A man has eaten his first solid meal in nine years after his face was rebuilt using a pioneering jaw-bone graft.
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A man infected with tuberculosis who caused an international health scare in May underwent surgery to remove the diseased part of his right lung.
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Former Malaysian deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim arrived in Germany Sunday for back surgery, days after being released from six years in prison.
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Before his brain surgery, Johnny DuRocher thought he'd been promised he wouldn't lose any of his hair. However, when DuRocher awoke from surgery on Nov. 30, the entire back of his head was shaved.
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Dr. Michael R. Treat is hard at work on an invention he hopes will change the way surgeons work in the operating room - an automated helping hand.
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Researchers are developing a tooth implant which automatically releases medicine.
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A new discovery about a cellular control mechanism could lead to drugs for both stem cell-driven tissue regeneration and cancer. American researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina