'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
A prosecutor says country music star Randy Travis is expected to enter a guilty plea in a drunken-driving case in north Texas.
A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal's now-deceased owner, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants just as it does now with kidneys, hearts and other organs, with waiting lists, a nationwide system to match and distribute body parts and donor testing to prevent deadly infections.
They savor pizza and burgers, no longer frighten children, and many of them can walk the streets without people knowing they have someone else's cheeks, nose, lips and skin. People who have had face transplants increasingly are going public, helping to transform an operation that six years ago was daredevil theory into one that is widely accepted.
They savor pizza and burgers, no longer frighten children, and many of them can walk the streets without people knowing they have someone else's cheeks, nose, lips and skin. People who have had face transplants increasingly are going public, helping to transform an operation that six years ago was daredevil theory into one that is widely accepted.
The new face of a woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee two years ago was revealed for the first time Thursday in photos showing a startling transformation.
More face transplant recipients and donor families are going public. They are boosting acceptance of an operation that six years ago was just daredevil theory.
The new face of a Connecticut woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee two years ago was revealed for the first time Thursday in photos showing a startling transformation.
They savor pizza and burgers, no longer frighten children, and many of them can walk the streets without people knowing they have someone else's cheeks, nose, lips and skin. People who have had face transplants increasingly are going public, helping to transform an operation that six years ago was daredevil theory into one that is widely accepted.
Firefighters on Sunday expressed the first real sense of hope that they were making progress in their battle against a huge eastern Arizona wildfire burning since May, as officials began allowing roughly 7,000 residents to return home to two towns that had been threatened by the blaze.
A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee gone berserk has received a new face in the third such operation performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to going out in public again and eating hot dogs and pizza after months of pureed food.
A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a berserk chimpanzee has received a new face in the third such operation ever performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to chewing her meals again after months of pureed food.
A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee gone berserk has received a new face in the third such operation performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to going out in public again and eating hot dogs and pizza after months of pureed food.
A woman who underwent a full face transplant at a Boston hospital more than two years after she was mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is looking forward to eating normal food again and going out in public without covering her face, her brother and doctor said Friday.
A Boston surgeon who helped perform a face and double-hand transplant on a Connecticut women mauled by a chimpanzee says even though the hand transplants failed, the woman could undergo another hand transplant in the future.
"I will now be able to do things I once took for granted," she said in the statement. "I will be able to smell. I will be able to eat normally. I will no longer be disfigured. I will have lips and will speak clearly once again. I will be able to kiss and hug loved ones. I am tremendously grateful to the donor and her family."
Ms. Nash said she's hoping to attempt another double hand transplant one day.
