“As a face transplant patient, you have a new identity. She’s going to influence people in ways she could never have done ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New Hampshire woman is the first American to receive a second face transplant — and only the second in world history. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, 52, received the transplant from an anonymous donor at ...

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 ...

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 hospital in Barcelona has performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, offered her face for donation before undergoing an assisted dying procedure. The complex ...

A suicide attempt survivor is getting a second chance after receiving a historic face transplant. Katie Stubblefield, 21, is the youngest face transplant recipient in U.S. history. At 18, she tried to ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who was severely burned in a domestic violence attack in Vermont may have to undergo another face transplant. After doctors discovered tissue damage, her current donor face could ...

The Barcelona woman thanked the donor, saying she “gave me a part of her life so that I could live” Vall d’Hebron A woman in Barcelona received the first-ever face transplant from a donor who chose ...

Carmen Blandin Tarleton's face was unrecognizable after the lye attack, burned away in the frenzy of an estranged husband's rage. Nearly six years later, the Vermont nurse is celebrating a gift that ...