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Doctors perform 1st-ever whole eye, partial face transplant
By Nicoletta Lanese published
This is the first whole-eye transplant performed in a person, and it was completed alongside a partial face transplant.
Breast implants saved a man's life during a lung transplant. Here's how.
By Nicoletta Lanese published
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants and an artificial lung to keep a patient stabilized until his double-lung transplant.
Knife blade lodged in a man's belly mysteriously 'floated' to the other side of his body without causing damage
By Emily Cooke published
Doctors report an "unusual and spectacular injury" in which a knife blade lodged in a man's belly drifted through his abdomen.
In extremely rare case, doctors remove fetus from brain of 1-year-old
By Nicoletta Lanese published
A young child had the remnants of her absorbed twin removed from her head.
Vasectomy: Procedure, risks and reversal
By Anna Gora published
Half a million men in the United States undergo a vasectomy every year. But how does this procedure work?
Weight-Loss Supplement Linked to Liver Failure Case
By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe last updated
A healthy 35-year-old woman who took a weight-loss supplement developed liver failure, and needed a liver transplant, according to a new report of her case.
'Poop Pills' Work Just As Well As Traditional Fecal Transplants
By Samantha Mathewson last updated
"Poop transplants" given as a pill may work just as well as those delivered via colonoscopy, and the pill form may be a more pleasant treatment method for patients, a new study from Canada finds.
Scientists revived the cells of pigs an hour after death, a potential organ transplant breakthrough
By Nicoletta Lanese published
Scientists revitalized cells in the bodies of dead pigs.
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