After 6-Year Ordeal, Connie Culp prepares to head home. Aug. 26, 2010— -- For the first time since her face was destroyed by a shotgun blast in 2004, Connie Culp can now walk down the street and ...

Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. May 23, 2013— -- Patients usually have to wait several years before undergoing face transplant surgery, but after a work accident left ...

CLEVELAND — Connie Culp, the first recipient of a partial face transplant in the U.S., has died at age 57, the Cleveland Clinic confirmed Thursday. Dr. Frank Papay, chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s ...

ROCHESTER, MN -- He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had ...

NEW YORK CITY -- NYU Langone Health successfully completed a first-of-its-kind surgery that could change the medical world forever. A patient received the first-ever eye and partial face transplant, ...

In 2018, Joe DiMeo got in a car crash that left his body 80 percent burned. Two years later, he received a historic face and double hand transplant at age 22. His donor was 47 years old Immediately ...

Woman Whose Face Was Ripped Off By Chimp 16 Years Ago Shares Update originally appeared on Parade. Charla Nash is opening up about her life 16 years after surviving a horrific chimpanzee attack that ...