In August 2015, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez gave him a new one. It was the most extensive face transplant ever, involving more than 100 people. Dr. Rodriguez's team practiced for more than a year.

But five months ago, doctors at NYU Langone Health gave James his confidence back by performing the world’s first eye and face transplant. “For the first time since the accident, I don't want ...

Connie Culp, who made history as the first person to receive a face transplant in the United States, has died, the Cleveland Clinic confirmed. She was 57. Culp died on Thursday evening ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Katie Stubblefield has joined what Shaun Fiddler, the Cleveland Clinic’s second face transplant recipient, good ...

A schoolgirl aged 14 who was badly disfigured in a fire has volunteered to undergo the world's first full face transplant. The groundbreaking surgery involves removing the face from a four-hour ...

On August 14, 2015, doctors at NYU Langone completed the most complex face transplant to date. We conducted an interview with Hardison one year later and learned about some of the hardships he's ...

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to a 21-year-old woman who would become the youngest face transplant recipient in American history. It is a story about breakthrough science and the doctors, nurses, and surgeons who created a ...

2023 11:27 a.m. NEW YORK — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant — although it’s far too soon to know ...

After 58 surgeries that kept him alive but disfigured, Derek underwent a transplant at Mayo Clinic in the United States in February that replaced 85% of his face with donor bone, tissue and skin.

Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, bleeding in the snow from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that ripped away his face. Not this year. After 58 surgeries ...