Clinic Receives Approval To Perform Face Transplant
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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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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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U.S. regulators on Monday approved an implantable contact lens that corrects nearsightedness and offers an alternative to laser surgery.
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A permanent, implantable contact lens that can dramatically improve vision in patients with severe nearsightedness is expected to receive FDA approval within days.
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A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and has gradually regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported yesterday in the first detailed account of her progress.
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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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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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The Frenchwoman who received the worldâs first partial face transplant regained nearly full use of her facial muscles within 18 months.
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A team of doctors in Kentucky and the Netherlands is preparing to perform the world&#39;s first face transplant. In an article in The American Journal of Bioethics, the doctors write, There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done.
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OAKLAND PARK, Fla. -- The clinic where four patients went for wrinkle-smoothing treatments but ended up getting botulism has been secured as a crime scene.
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Lahey Clinic has received the approvals it needs for the $135 million expansion of its Burlington campus and is planning to start construction by December.
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After deciding to keep a baby alive in California with a device not approved for use in the U.S., doctors performed a heart transplant on Monday.
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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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The Cleveland Clinic in the United states says it is the first institution to receive review board approval of human facial transplant for someone severely disfigured by burns or disease.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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STAMFORD, Conn. -- Stamford Hospital is the latest medical center to get state approval to perform emergency angioplasty on heart attack patients.
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Gilead gets marketing approval for one of its drug candidates.