transplants
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What My Stupid Body Taught Me About Organ Donation During A Pandemic
Four weeks ago, I strolled into Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital to a ghost waiting room. All the trappings of a normal outpatient hospital were there: TVs blaring cable news, taupe-coloured chairs, fake plants. But where patients and their loved ones would usually be waiting, there was just one solitary person.
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Certain People — Maybe Even You — Have Special Poop That Can Save Lives
There are plenty of people who are exceptional in one way or another. But a new review published this week suggests that even the poop we make can be extraordinary. It argues that some of us are super faecal transplant donors, with poop that is uniquely suited to treating digestive and gut problems.
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Head Transplant Doctor Claims First Successful Human Head Transplant… On A Corpse
One nice thing about teddy bears is that if your dog tears the head off of your child’s favourite one, you can just sew it back on. But you don’t proclaim your achievement a “wild success” — rather, you say, “Here, I have fixed your lifeless play-thing.”
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Behold The Most Extensive Face Transplant In Medical History
A firefighter from Mississippi whose face became disfigured during a rescue attempt is the recipient of the world’s most extensive face transplant. The 41-year-old now bears the face of a 26-year-old man who recently died in an extreme cycling accident.