The cover story of the September National Geograph...  ...s a detailed account of Katie Stubblefield's face transplant . At 21, she's the youngest American to ever recei...  ...'s the youngest American to ever receive a facial transplant . Before the transplant , Stubblefield un...

When we first heard of hand transplants , it raised the question of how organ transplants could be justified when they aren't necessary to...  ...ve come a long way since then, with limb and face transplants to improve the quality of life. When the first pe...  ...improve the...

Mustache-challenged? Do you feel like le...  ...to Turkey, where you can get a mustache transplant : The procedure uses a technique...  ...sm agencies have begun offering " transplant packages" combining facial-hair...

Former Idaho beauty queen Jamie Hilton suffered brain swelling after a devastating fall in June. Doctors removed a large chunk of her skull to allow the swelling to heal, then replaced it a few weeks later. In the meanti...

Last week, in a 36-hour operation, Richard Lee Nor...  ...wn here before his accident) received a full face transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The...  ...at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The transplant team was led by reconstructive specialist Dr. Edu...  ...ractices and comput...

There's something unusual about th...  ...procedure known as a heterotopic heart transplant . Unlike an orthotopic transplant , in which one organ is removed and another put in...  ...other put in its place, a heterotopic transplant pairs a new organ with...

Dr. Alexander Khoruts, a gastroenterologist, saved...  ...Khoruts, a gastroenterologist, saved a patient by transplanting a piece of her husband's excrement into her colon...  ...er colon:Dr. Khoruts decided his patient needed a transplant . But he didn’t give her a piece of someone...  ...d those absent i...

Shannon Elliott of Long Island, New York lost the thumb and two fingers of her left hand in a fireworks incident. The 25-year-old recently underwent surgery to replace her thumb -with one of her big toes! "To me it was...

Doctors in Spain have carried out the world's firs...  ...pain have carried out the world's first full-face transplant . Although there have already been partial transplants , this was the most complex so far: It appears...  ...f the face. A spokesperson for the UK's Facial Transp...

Dan Coyne of Evanston, Illinois didn't know anythi...  ...en her sister turned out to be a poor match for a transplant , Coyne insisted on being tested. He was a match....  ...al will remove one of Coyne's healthy kidneys and transplant it to de la Vega, a 49-year-old Filipino immigran...  ...en as she's undergo...