Doctors say they&#39;re ready to perform face transplant
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Surgery could aid the severely disfigured, researchers write, but others say ethical and social questions remain. By Laura Ungar. LOUISVILLE, Ky.
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Doctors in Leeds carry out the NHS's first adult-to-adult live donor liver transplant.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES -- 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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Â· Medical chief urges new donor schemeÂ· Observer launches reform campaign
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NEW YORK A hospital source says doctors began preparing former President Bill Clinton for a heart bypass operation today. Preparations for the surgery began at about 6:45 this morning in the operating room
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Surgeons carry out the first full face reconstruction, including the nose, using a single flap of skin.
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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.
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A Vail man who has been in a high-stakes battle with a Denver hospital over a kidney transplant says he was told that the operation he needs will go ahead Wednesday.
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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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Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online. A hospital in Denver originally postponed the operation amid worries that the recipient might have paid the donor for his organ.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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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
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Doctors in Germany have rebuilt a man's face after growing a new jaw on his back.
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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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Scientists have developed a stengthened cement to be used in facial reconstructive surgery.
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NEW YORK  - Transplantation of  pigment-producing cells called melanocytes appears to be a safe  and effective treatment for vitiligo, in which patches of skin  lose their coloration, appearing whitish, according to two  reports in the Archives of Dermatology.