Face Transplant a First for U.S.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 20:42 in Health & Medicine

Surgeons have performed the first U.S. face transplant, transferring most of the visage of a corpse onto a woman who was missing most of her own face, doctors said today. [More]

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