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As people in their hordes hit the streets of Delhi to vent grief and anger over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on last Sunday, a city hospital Friday offered the victim free intestinal transplant. The private Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi has also offered to bear the...

First-ever total face transplant A new face A French surgeon has carried out the world's first-ever successful transplant of an entire face, the daily Le Parisien reported Thursday. The 12-hour procedure was performed June 26 and 27 at the Henri-Mondor public hospital in Creteil, a...

LONDON – British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it...