Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. May 23, 2013— -- Patients usually have to wait several years before undergoing face transplant surgery, but after a work accident left ...

BOSTON (AP) — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and ...

Frenchman, 30, receives an almost full face transplant. LONDON, March 24, 2008 — -- For 24 years Pascal Coler's face drew so many taunts in the street that he retreated to his home to live the ...

He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to ...

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 ...

The French surgical team that in November performed the world's first face transplant will appear in Tucson next week at an international conference to discuss pioneering tissue transplants. The team, ...

NEW YORK CITY -- NYU Langone Health successfully completed a first-of-its-kind surgery that could change the medical world forever. A patient received the first-ever eye and partial face transplant, ...

To give an idea of the scope and difficulty of Jack El-Hai’s new book: He usually does three or four revisions. This one was more like 10 or 12. “It was a hard book to write,” said El-Hai of “Face in ...

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 ...

It's the simple things in life Richard Norris will never take for granted. Most evenings, he can be found with his girlfriend, Melanie Solis, walking their three dachschunds, Otis, Baxter and Boudin, ...