Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring break in ...

The procedure, performed by a team of around 100 health professionals, is a global medical milestone and opens new avenues ...

When he saw the newspaper headlines in 2002, James Partridge was furious. Severely burned in a fire at 18, he spent his life advocating for people with "visible difference" through charities like ...

In a landmark development for reconstructive medicine in India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi has announced the launch of the country’s first face transplant programme, a ...

A year after undergoing the first whole-eye and partial-face transplant, Aaron James is finding beauty in the mundane. He can finally appreciate solid foods again — smelling is even a simple pleasure ...

There have been 50 face transplants performed in 11 countries since the surgery was pioneered back in 2005, and long-term outcomes have been favorable, a new review finds. In total, 85% of people ...

Face and hand transplantation are relatively new in the world of surgery. The key purpose for transplants is to restore function in patients who have experienced some sort of extreme trauma, but ...

LONDON -- In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany. Dr. Laurent ...

Before face transplants, burn victims and others who’d lost substantial amounts facial tissues in a traumatic incident could only rely on a patchwork of skin grafts from elsewhere on the body or ...

Richard Norris was 22 when a gun accident took his lips, his nose and the front portion of his tongue. The damage to his jaw left him with limited mouth mobility and gave the appearance that his face ...

Efforts at facial reconstruction go back to the 1400s, but it wasn't until the emergence of both modern medicine and modern warfare that significant ...

When he saw the newspaper headlines in 2002, James Partridge was furious. Severely burned in a fire at 18, he spent his life advocating for people with “visible difference” through charities like ...