Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Oct. 18, 2012— -- Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Richard Lee Norris, a Virginia man who was severely ...

A team of 11 Cleveland Clinic surgeons and specialists successfully performed the health system’s first total face transplant and third overall face transplant in May. The patient was a 21-year-old ...

Selection criteria for face transplant patients may tighten up in the future. May 22, 2009— -- It's a procedure so rare that only a handful of surgeons worldwide have any experience with it.

It may be time to take a second look at face transplants. While 19 people worldwide have undergone successful face transplants, their long-term followup may be under-reported, according to ...

An interdisciplinary care team at Mayo Clinic’s main campus in Rochester, Minn., successfully performed a near-total face transplant on a 32-year-old Wyoming man whose face was severely damaged from ...

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 ...

A 33-year-old Polish man whose face was brutally maimed during a workplace accident has become the first patient in the world to undergo a life-saving face transplant procedure. Surgeons today ...

BEIJING - A Chinese farmer who received a partial face transplant after being mauled by a black bear has been discharged from the hospital and will go back to his rural mountain village, state media ...

Woman Whose Face Was Ripped Off By Chimp 16 Years Ago Shares Update originally appeared on Parade. Charla Nash is opening up about her life 16 years after surviving a horrific chimpanzee attack that ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...