BEIJING, April 14, 2006 — -- Doctors in northwest China have successfully carried out the country's first face transplant. Chinese surgeons performed a partial transplant on a 30-year-old Chinese ...

BOSTON (AP) — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and ...

Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. May 23, 2013— -- Patients usually have to wait several years before undergoing face transplant surgery, but after a work accident left ...

It's the simple things in life Richard Norris will never take for granted. Most evenings, he can be found with his girlfriend, Melanie Solis, walking their three dachschunds, Otis, Baxter and Boudin, ...

A groundbreaking surgery was completed 20 years ago. The first partial face transplant was performed by a team of doctors in France on Isabelle Dinoire, a French woman who was mauled on the face by ...

When he saw the newspaper headlines in 2002, James Partridge was furious. Severely burned in a fire at 18, he spent his life advocating for people with "visible difference" through charities like ...

LYON, France, Dec. 2 -- French physicians on Friday defended their decision to perform the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, saying horrific wounds from a dog bite in May ...

He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to ...

The French surgical team that in November performed the world's first face transplant will appear in Tucson next week at an international conference to discuss pioneering tissue transplants. The team, ...

Before face transplants, burn victims and others who’d lost substantial amounts facial tissues in a traumatic incident could only rely on a patchwork of skin grafts from elsewhere on the body or ...

LONDON -- In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany. Dr. Laurent ...