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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- 8-year-old Zion Harvey told his doctors he wanted to throw a football. It was almost impossible, because Zion had lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago. But he may ...

July 7, 2003 — Editor's Note: A French-Italian team performed the first hand transplant in September 1998, but the hand had to be removed after 23 months because the patient was not compliant with ...

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A patient from Switzerland is visiting Philadelphia and returning to the hospital that changed his life. Texting on his phone for the first time in 17 years, for Luka Krizanac, is a milestone, along ...

Five years after Matthew Scott became the nation's first hand transplant recipient, he says he couldn't be happier. He uses his new hand to clap, exchange money, carve meat, move furniture, hold a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - UCLA says it is launching a hand transplant study and is looking for amputees, including war veterans, willing to undergo the experimental surgery.The clinical trial program is only ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A patient from Switzerland is visiting Philadelphia and returning to the hospital that changed his life. Texting on his phone for the first time in 17 years, for Luka Krizanac, is ...