Doctors now ready for face transplants
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LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands say they&#39;re ready to do a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.
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Adiences of an exhibition are being invited to see what they would look like if they had cosmetic surgery.
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A gel to speed up wound healing and reduce scarring is being developed by UK scientists.
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Patients seeking an appointment with a dermatologist to ask about a potentially cancerous mole have to wait substantially longer than those seeking Botox for wrinkles.
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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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Tissue banks that process donated skin, ligaments and bones for transplant must meet new federal safety standards aimed at preventing infection
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Someone severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using skin and underlying fat from an organ donor.
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Doctors said they expect to perform reconstructive surgery for about 11 hours Thursday on a 4-year-old Kenyan boy who lost much of the left half of his face when he was mauled at birth by dogs in his home country.
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Britons are getting more cosmetic  surgery and other treatments intended to improve their looks,  with nearly a fifth more procedures carried out last year  versus 2003, an industry body said Monday.
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Seven months after receiving the world&#039;s first partial face transplant, a French woman continues to improve, doctors said in the first detailed account of her surgery, published Monday with dramatic before-and-after pictures.
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Doctors in Germany have rebuilt a man&#39;s face after growing a new jaw on his back, it has been revealed. By the fourth week after receiving the pioneering transplant, the patient was able to enjoy his first solid meal for nine years.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  -- 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, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.    "There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done...
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The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, is to start screening patients for what will be the first ever face transplant. A review board has given the clinic permission to carry out the procedure.
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A prototype artificial skin which can be used to heal wounds has been developed by British researchers.
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A third team of researchers has found a way to convert an ordinary skin cell into valued embryonic-like stem cells, with the potential to grow batches of cells that can be directed to form any kind of tissue.
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Look inside an animated patient to learn how doctors are treating catastrophic injuries with new technologies that meld humans and machines.
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CLEVELAND, OHIO - A clinic in Ohio says it is about to start screening patients for what could be the world&#39;s first face transplant.