Surgeons Say They&#39;re Ready to Do Face Transplants
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Doctors from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they&#39;re ready to perform a face transplant as soon as they find an eligible candidate.
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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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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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Doctors plan to perform the first in a series of high-risk surgeries on Wednesday to separate 3-year-old twin girls joined at the head.
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A new technique is helping re-animate the faces of patients with severe long-term facial paralysis, doctors say.
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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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Scientists have developed a stengthened cement to be used in facial reconstructive surgery.
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NEW YORK  - Less than 10 percent of adults   in the US has ever had some type of cosmetic surgery, yet   almost twice as many hope to do so at some point in the future,   a survey shows.
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Scientists developed an implant they say could help rebuild the faces of disfigured children.
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Surgery to transplant a woman&#39;s entire ovary to her upper arm is feasible and can preserve fertility in patients undergoing radiation treatments that leave
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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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City of London financiers have found a perfect way to splurge their annual bonuses -- cosmetic surgery to keep them looking youthful in a fiercely competitive job market.
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Following 10 months of debate on the medical, ethical, and psychological issues involved, the Cleveland Clinic&#39;s review board has approved its doctors&#39; petition to be the first institution worldwide to perform a human face transplant, the Associated Press
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The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the leading national organization of board-certified plastic surgeons who specialize in
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It was the kind of breakthrough scientists had dreamed of for decades and its promise to help cure disease appears to be fast on the way to being realized. Researchers in November announced they were able to turn the clock back on skin cells and transform them into stem cells, the mutable building blocks of organs and tissues.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.