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"Can't Compete With God": Startup's Head Transplant Video Shocks Internet
BrainBridge said says it aims to offer new hope to patients suffering from untreatable conditions.
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Doctors In Pune Have Successfully Performed A Skull Implant On 4-Year Old Girl
The surgery of Ishita Jawale was performed earlier in May after she suffered severe head injuries in an accident. Due to blood clot in the skull, the doctors took the decision to remove the bones of the skull in order to get rid of the clot.
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Dahi Handi Celebrations: Man Dies His Heart Saves A 22-Year Old Girl
It was the first time when a human organ for transplant was flown in a commercial flight. The hospital convinced the deceased's family members to donate his organs. His brother consented for his liver, heart, and kidneys to be donated.
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Surgeons Hope To Do The World's First Head Transplant - And A Head Has Been Offered
Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...
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Italian-Chinese Medical Team to Perform First Head Transplant
An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country.
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47-Year-Old Brain Dead Gives 'Lease of Life' to 3
47-year-old Jagan Singh who was declared brain dead, gave the lease of life to three men, who were transplanted with his liver and kidneys.
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Surgeon Promising First Human Head Transplant Makes US Pitch
An Italian neurosurgeon's project to undertake the first human head transplant has received a skeptical welcome in the United States, where he made a pitch to donors and fellow scientists.
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Historic Skull and Scalp Transplant Performed in Texas
A man whose cancer left him with severe damage to the top of the head has received what his doctors in Houston describe as the first skull and scalp transplant, the MD Anderson Cancer Center said on Thursday.
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Russian Man May Become First Person to Have Head Transplant
A 30-year-old Russian computer scientist with a rare, genetic muscle wasting disease is set to become the first person in the world to have his head transplanted onto a healthy donor body.
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Hair Transplants: Pakistan's New Weapon of Mass Seduction
Mohammad Shahid's eyes lit up when he saw his once bald cousin come home one day with a head full of hair and a strutting gait to match.
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Human head transplants now possible: scientist
Human head transplants may now be possible using the latest advances in cell engineering, an Italian scientist has claimed.
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Man gets double arm transplant in Mexico
A Mexican man whose arms were severely burned by electricity became the first patient in Latin America to receive a double arm transplant, doctors said Thursday. Gabriel Granados, a 52-year-old father of two whose arms were amputated just below the elbow, received the arms of a 34-year-old shooting victim, said Dr Martin Iglesias, head of the surg...
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Transplant expert doubtful over Abidal return
The head of Spain's national organ transplant organisation on Friday suggested that French footballer Eric Abidal would have difficulty returning to the sport after a liver transplant.
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"Can't Compete With God": Startup's Head Transplant Video Shocks Internet
BrainBridge said says it aims to offer new hope to patients suffering from untreatable conditions.
-
Doctors In Pune Have Successfully Performed A Skull Implant On 4-Year Old Girl
The surgery of Ishita Jawale was performed earlier in May after she suffered severe head injuries in an accident. Due to blood clot in the skull, the doctors took the decision to remove the bones of the skull in order to get rid of the clot.
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Dahi Handi Celebrations: Man Dies His Heart Saves A 22-Year Old Girl
It was the first time when a human organ for transplant was flown in a commercial flight. The hospital convinced the deceased's family members to donate his organs. His brother consented for his liver, heart, and kidneys to be donated.
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Surgeons Hope To Do The World's First Head Transplant - And A Head Has Been Offered
Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...
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Italian-Chinese Medical Team to Perform First Head Transplant
An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country.
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47-Year-Old Brain Dead Gives 'Lease of Life' to 3
47-year-old Jagan Singh who was declared brain dead, gave the lease of life to three men, who were transplanted with his liver and kidneys.
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Surgeon Promising First Human Head Transplant Makes US Pitch
An Italian neurosurgeon's project to undertake the first human head transplant has received a skeptical welcome in the United States, where he made a pitch to donors and fellow scientists.
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Historic Skull and Scalp Transplant Performed in Texas
A man whose cancer left him with severe damage to the top of the head has received what his doctors in Houston describe as the first skull and scalp transplant, the MD Anderson Cancer Center said on Thursday.
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Russian Man May Become First Person to Have Head Transplant
A 30-year-old Russian computer scientist with a rare, genetic muscle wasting disease is set to become the first person in the world to have his head transplanted onto a healthy donor body.
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Hair Transplants: Pakistan's New Weapon of Mass Seduction
Mohammad Shahid's eyes lit up when he saw his once bald cousin come home one day with a head full of hair and a strutting gait to match.
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Human head transplants now possible: scientist
Human head transplants may now be possible using the latest advances in cell engineering, an Italian scientist has claimed.
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Man gets double arm transplant in Mexico
A Mexican man whose arms were severely burned by electricity became the first patient in Latin America to receive a double arm transplant, doctors said Thursday. Gabriel Granados, a 52-year-old father of two whose arms were amputated just below the elbow, received the arms of a 34-year-old shooting victim, said Dr Martin Iglesias, head of the surg...
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Transplant expert doubtful over Abidal return
The head of Spain's national organ transplant organisation on Friday suggested that French footballer Eric Abidal would have difficulty returning to the sport after a liver transplant.
