Charla Nash, who was horribly mauled when a friend's pet chimp attacked her, recently received the country's first simultaneous face and hand transplant, her family and doctors revealed to TODAY. After a complex 20-hour surgery, her daughter says: 'She looks fantastic... just like anyone else.'
Chimp attack victim's face 'looks fantastic' after historic transplant
Posted in Health by healthnutter 349 days agoBone marrow transplant forever alters two lives
Posted in Health by healthnutter 390 days ago
A decade after then-college student Marshal Davis decided to join the national bone marrow registry, he got a call that would change his life forever and save that of a boy named Jacob Kowalik.
Donor in first successful U.S. transplant dies
Posted in Health by healthnutter 513 days ago
A man who donated a kidney to his dying twin brother 56 years ago in what's recognized as the world's first successful organ transplant has died.
Warm, beating hearts offer transplant hope
Posted in Health by healthnutter 537 days ago
Only about 100 people have received a "beating heart" transplant, an experimental operation that's mostly been done in Europe. The donor heart is placed into a special box that feeds it blood and keeps it warm and ticking outside the body.
Nation’s first face transplant patient goes public
Posted in Health by healthnutter 1116 days ago
Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman.
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