Faeces transplant cures a 47-year-old man who has a rare ‘auto-brewery’ condition which caused him to get drunk after eating carbs Belgian man was drunk intermittently for two months despite not drinking Doctors at a hospital in Ghent diagnosed him with auto-brewery syndrome This is where the microbes in a person’s gut turn carbohydrates into ethanol It … Read more
For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton’s face was left disfigured after she was attacked by her estranged husband with a baseball bat and doused with lye in 2007. Six years ago, she received a face transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, … Read more
Connie Culp, who became the first person in the US to receive a partial face transplant after surviving a gunshot blast to the face, has died from an infection. Culp died 12 years after the groundbreaking operation, aged 57. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery was performed in 2008, said that Culp died on Wednesday … Read more
Connie Culp, who became the first person in the US to receive a partial face transplant after surviving a gunshot blast to the face, has died from an infection. Culp died 12 years after the groundbreaking operation, aged 57. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery was performed in 2008, said that Culp died on Wednesday … Read more
Women who underwent the first face transplant in the U.S. in 2008 after her husband blasted her with a shotgun in a failed murder-suicide has died at the age of 57 Dr. Frank Papay announced Connie Culp’s death in a Thursday release She was 57, and her cause of death has not yet been released … Read more
Women who underwent the first face transplant in the U.S. in 2008 after her husband blasted her with a shotgun in a failed murder-suicide has died at the age of 57 Dr. Frank Papay announced Connie Culp’s death in a Thursday release She was 57, and her cause of death has not yet been released … Read more
A coronavirus patient saved from the brink of death by a double-lung transplant has made a full recovery from the deadly disease, according to doctors in Wuhan. The 65-year-old pensioner, named Cui Zhiqiang, was discharged by a hospital today – three months after he underwent the operation billed as ‘highly risky’ by surgeons. Mr Cui … Read more
A coronavirus patient saved from the brink of death by a double-lung transplant has made a full recovery from the deadly disease, according to doctors in Wuhan. The 65-year-old pensioner, named Cui Zhiqiang, was discharged by a hospital today – three months after he underwent the operation billed as ‘highly risky’ by surgeons. Mr Cui … Read more
Damaged lungs from a deceased donor are often too damaged to be transplanted into someone in need of the life-saving organ. But scientists have found a way to improve the state of lungs which are deemed too battered to be of any use. A host of scientists at both Columbia and Vanderbilt University channelled their inner … Read more
Amanda Kloots says husband Nick Cordero will likely need a double lung transplant to live the life ‘he would want’ in emotional Gayle King interview Amanda Kloots gave an emotional interview to Gayle King on CBS This Morning on Thursday, giving an update on her Broadway actor husband Nick Cordero Nick, 41, is currently fighting … Read more