UCLA performs first hand transplant in the western United States

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 06:50 in Health & Medicine

Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed the first hand transplant in the western United States in an operation that began one minute before midnight on Friday, March 4, and was completed 14-and-a-half hours later, on Saturday, March 5.

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