Posts Tagged ‘Surgery’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Young mothers, middle-age men and grandparents. All were among at least 32 people who died in Florida in the past decade in the pursuit of beauty soon after cosmetic surgery. That’s about the same number of deaths that occurred in the 1990s, leading the state Board of Medicine to pass rules restricting [...]

Burn Victim Gets 2 Hands In 18-Hour Surgery

August 26th, 2010 by Sarah Leeson | Tags: Burn Victim, Surgery

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Doctors performed a rare double hand transplant on a burn victim who is recovering Wednesday after the nearly 18-hour surgery. The transplant at a Louisville hospital was only the third in the nation. Jewish Hospital also performed the world’s first successful single hand transplant in 1999. Doctors started the operation at 7 [...]