PARIS (Reuters) - A man with a disfiguring disease has become the third person to have a partial face transplant, the second such operation in France in just over a year, doctors said on Tuesday. The ...

A French woman who received the one of the world’s first partial face transplants has died, according to NBC News. A statement by the AmiensUniversityHospital in France said 49-year-old Isabelle ...

AMIENS, France -- The Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant showed off her new features Monday, and her scar -- a faint, circular line of buckled skin around her nose, ...

LYON, FRANCE – Doctors in France said they had performed the world’s first partial face transplant, forging into a risky medical frontier with their operation on a woman disfigured by a dog bite. The ...

A face transplant is a rarely done surgery that uses donor facial tissues from someone who has died to replace all or part of a damaged face. It’s a complex procedure that requires multiple surgical ...

Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Oct. 18, 2012— -- Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Richard Lee Norris, a Virginia man who was severely ...

AMIENS, France (Reuters) - The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant said she was grateful simply to have features "like everybody else" and had come to terms with her ...

No surgery quite crosses the existential line the way transplant surgery does. Create a single chimeric human with the tissues of another and the very sense of self goes wobbly. In most cases, the ...