Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeons last week performed the first full face transplant in the United States, attaching a donor’s face to a young Texas man who suffered severe burns in a horrific electrical accident in 2008, the hospital said this morning. Dallas Wiens, 25, lost all of his features — except for a small [...]
The torn aorta that forced Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, to undergo two surgeries is an uncommon disorder that often kills within 48 hrs if untreated, doctors said. The ailment affects about 2,000 Americans yearly, and less experienced doctors sometimes have trouble recognizing it, said Deeb Salem, chairman of medicine at [...]
New York University photography professor Wafaa Bilal, previously known for his work on a videogame mod called The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi that cast players as a suicide bomber, is making waves once again. This time, he’s gone and implanted a camera into the back of his skull for a new photography [...]
Billy Joel, 61, responsible for hits including “Piano Man,” “Uptown Girl” and “New York State of Mind,” was doing “extremely well,” according to his spokeswoman. He had the procedures last week at a hospital in Long Island, New York, to correct a congenital condition. Last week Joel said in a radio interview that many years [...]
Zsa Zsa Gabor is in serious trouble in regards to her health as she remains in critical condition following her surgery. Zsa Zsa Gabor went through surgery this week after being hospitalized due to a broken hip. The surgery though did not go as smoothly as hoped as she is now in critical condition. The [...]