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Before and After Pictures of Successful Face Transplants

Brigham and Women's Hospital: Pictures of Charla Nash and other Successful Face Transplants

Charla Nash, 57, was mauled by a friend's 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., in 2009. Her eyelids, nose, lips and hands were ripped off in the gruesome incident. Nash lost her ability to see, smell and speak properly. She underwent surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., and became one of a small number of people in the world to get a full face transplant.
Before and After Pictures of Successful Face Transplants

Face Transplant: New Life for Charla Nash Before And After [PHOTOS]

Charla Nash, 57, a Connecticut woman, Thursday revealed her new face after being mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Brigham and Women?s Hospital, where Nash underwent a historic 20-hour face transplant in May, released the first post-surgery photograph of Charla Nash, this morning and a statement by her.
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Vampire Bat Induced Human Rabies Kills Teenager in US

A Mexican teenager is the first officially known person to die from vampire bat bite and infection with human rabies. The 19-year-old victim was a migrant farm worker from Michoacan, who got bitten on the heel by a vampire bat in July.
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Thin Skin-like Electronic Patch Measures Vital Signs [VIDEO]

Temporary tattoos don't just look cool: A special one could end up saving your life by monitoring your vital signs. An international team of researchers has designed an ultra-thin electronic device that attaches to the skin like a temporary tattoo and measures heart rate and other vital signs. This device, which has the thickness of a human hair, works without the bulky electrodes used in current hospital monitoring, according to a new study in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Science.
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Chimp-Mauled Woman Gets Full Transplant, Shows New Face [UNSEEN PHOTOS]

Charla Nash, 57, a Connecticut woman, Thursday revealed her new face after being mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Brigham and Women?s Hospital, where Nash underwent a historic 20-hour face transplant in May, released the first post-surgery photograph of Charla Nash, this morning and a statement by her.
Face transplant recipient Charla Nash

Woman Mauled by Chimpanzee Speaks Out After Historic 20-Hour Surgery

Charla Nash, 57, Thursday revealed her new face after being mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Brigham and Women?s Hospital, where Nash underwent a 20-hour face transplant in May, released the first post-surgery photograph of Charla Nash, this morning and a statement by her.
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Cancer Researchers Hail Breakthrough in Leukemia Treatment

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have made strides in treating leukemia patients with a new technique that engineers blood cells to attack the cancer, according to studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.
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FDA Approves Daily HIV Pill for Treatment-Naive Adults

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Gilead Sciences' Complera (emtricitabine/rilpivirine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) for treatment of HIV-1 in adults who are new to treatment. The daily tablet consists of a fixed-dose combination of Truvada and NNRTI rilpivirine.
New Research Invents “Buddy” Virus That Destroys HIV Virus

Breakthrough 'Buddy' Virus to Wipeout AIDS Virus

Tagging the HIV virus with a new viral vector; the subject of a new research has aroused much interest in the quest to find the ultimate cure for HIV induced AIDS. Healing victims of HIV could perhaps find a new meaning from this new study conducted by Dr Pin Wang of the USC (University of South California) Viterbi School of Engineering.
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Patients' Own Immune Systems Can Wipe Out Leukemia: Study

Scientists used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease. University of Pennsylvania researchers engineered patient's own T-cells in order to target a molecule on the surface of leukemia cells.

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