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Boston Hospital Performs US' 1st Full Face Transplant

Nick McMaster — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:30:57 CDT

A Boston hospital has performed the nation's first full face transplant, the AP reports. Dallas Weins, a Texas construction worker badly disfigured and blinded in a 2008 power line accident, underwent a 15-hour operation in which parts of a deceased donor's face were transplanted onto his skull. Weins will not...

Live Kidney Donors Should Be Encouraged, Not Doubted

Katherine Thompson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:20:20 CDT

When Frances Kissling learned she needed a kidney transplant, she took a step most people in her situation never do: She asked dozens of friends and colleagues if they would be willing to donate. "I was bowled over by how people responded," the Catholic feminist activist writes for Salon—she...

Docs Pull Off 6-Kidney Swap

Kevin Spak — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:23:34 CDT

In a procedure that took 13 hours and involved more than 100 medical personnel, Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled off the US' first six-way kidney transplant, the Baltimore Sun reports. Six donors provided six patients with working organs in Saturday's so-called "domino" procedure. All 12 were listed in good condition yesterday;...

Transplant List Called Misleading

Katherine Thompson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:16:08 CDT

Thousands of patients on a national list for organ transplants are actually ineligible to receive them, the Washington Post reports. One third of the 98,000 patients on the United Network for Organ Sharing list are either too sick or too healthy to get a new organ. Critics say including...