CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)-- The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr. Maria Siemionow ...

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 ...

For more on Patrick Hardison and his life since the first extensive face transplant, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Wednesday. “There was a big personality change ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...