Doctors: Face transplant was successful
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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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A man's efforts to get a healthy liver with public pleas, including billboards and a Web site, succeeded as he underwent transplant surgery with a donated organ. Officials at The Methodist Hospital said Todd Krampitz, 32, was recovering Friday in the intensive care unit.
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The world's first partial face transplant patient can now go out without people noticing her scars, says her surgeon.
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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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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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A woman undergoing cancer treatment has had her fertility saved after doctors transplanted her ovary into her arm. Dutch surgeons at Leiden University hope she could become the first woman in the world to become pregnant thanks to the procedure.
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A computer chip that is implanted under the skin won US approval on Wednesday for use in helping doctors quickly access a patient&#39;s medical history.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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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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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva successfully underwent surgery to remove a nasal polyp on Friday, doctors said.
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A Chinese farmer who received a partial face transplant after he was badly disfigured in a bear attack was recovering well and has been discharged from the hospital, state media said Saturday.
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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 new technique is helping re-animate the faces of patients with severe long-term facial paralysis, doctors say.
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Even as ethicists and others raise concerns, a team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands says it is ready to perform a face transplant.
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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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Doctors have used thin sheets of cheek tissue to restore vision in people with damaged corneas. A team from Osaka University transplanted thin layers of cheek cells onto the eyes of four patients with a rare and painful eye condition.
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A woman with cancer has had her fertility preserved thanks to doctors who transplanted her ovary into her arm.