transplants http://www.npr.org transplants en Copyright 2013 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:55:00 -0400 http://media.npr.org/images/npr_news_123x20.gif transplants http://www.npr.org Olympic Hopeful Works To Improve Bone Marrow Registries For many people of African descent, a lack of registry information and genetic diversity make bone marrow matches tough to find. Lawyer and Winter Olympic hopeful Seun Adebiyi made his battle with leukemia a quest for more donors and better registries in African countries. Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:55:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/07/23/157130177/olympic-hopeful-works-to-improve-bone-marrow-registries?ft=1&f=139562504 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/07/23/157130177/olympic-hopeful-works-to-improve-bone-marrow-registries?ft=1&f=139562504 For many people of African descent, a lack of registry information and genetic diversity make bone marrow matches tough to find. Lawyer and Winter Olympic hopeful Seun Adebiyi made his battle with leukemia a quest for more donors and better registries in African countries.

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]]> Transplants Bring New Faces In 2011 Surgeons make full-face transplants a reality for people with severely disfigured faces. Three such operations were performed successfully in Boston this year, a turning point in the field. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:09:00 -0500 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/29/144441385/transplants-bring-new-faces-in-2011?ft=1&f=139562504 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/29/144441385/transplants-bring-new-faces-in-2011?ft=1&f=139562504 Surgeons make full-face transplants a reality for people with severely disfigured faces. Three such operations were performed successfully in Boston this year, a turning point in the field.

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]]> 'I Will No Longer Be Disfigured': First Photos of Transplant Patient Released Charla Nash's face was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Before the transplant, she wore a veil to conceal her grotesquely misshapen visage. Her transplanted face is smooth and normally proportioned, with little or no sign it came from another person, whose family consented to the donation after death. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:28:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/11/139561948/i-will-no-longer-be-disfigured-first-photos-of-transplant-patient-released?ft=1&f=139562504 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/11/139561948/i-will-no-longer-be-disfigured-first-photos-of-transplant-patient-released?ft=1&f=139562504 Charla Nash's face was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Before the transplant, she wore a veil to conceal her grotesquely misshapen visage. Her transplanted face is smooth and normally proportioned, with little or no sign it came from another person, whose family consented to the donation after death.

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]]> Woman Mauled By Chimp Gets A New Face Charla Nash, the woman whose face and hands were mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009, received a new face from surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She also received transplanted hands, but they had to be removed after a blood infection. Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:22:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/06/10/137104646/woman-mauled-by-chimp-gets-a-new-face?ft=1&f=139562504 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/06/10/137104646/woman-mauled-by-chimp-gets-a-new-face?ft=1&f=139562504 Charla Nash, the woman whose face and hands were mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009, received a new face from surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She also received transplanted hands, but they had to be removed after a blood infection.

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