He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to ...

BEIJING, April 14, 2006 — -- Doctors in northwest China have successfully carried out the country's first face transplant. Chinese surgeons performed a partial transplant on a 30-year-old Chinese ...

Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Oct. 18, 2012— -- Face-transplant technology has come a long way in seven years. Richard Lee Norris, a Virginia man who was severely ...

Joe DiMeo was the first survivor of a combined face and double hand transplant. He and his wife, Jessica, have made his story go viral Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

'I didn't want to talk to anyone about it. I wish I would have now.' Only about 50 people in the world have ever received a face transplant, and the story of how this man got to this point is full of ...

When he saw the newspaper headlines in 2002, James Partridge was furious. Severely burned in a fire at 18, he spent his life ...

Before face transplants, burn victims and others who’d lost substantial amounts facial tissues in a traumatic incident could only rely on a patchwork of skin grafts from elsewhere on the body or ...

Derek Pfaff has undergone 65 surgeries since 2014, when he was found lying outside his home on a mound of blood-covered snow Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

HARBOR BEACH, MI - Night had fallen over Harbor Beach, covering the shoreline in darkness when the town’s quiet was shattered by a father’s anguished scream. “No, Derek, no!” Jerry Pfaff screamed. Ten ...

It may be time to take a second look at face transplants. While 19 people worldwide have undergone successful face transplants, their long-term followup may be under-reported, according to ...

Men in India are quietly choosing hair transplants in 2025, not for dramatic makeovers, but for subtle, realistic results ...

Joe DiMeo was the first survivor of a combined face and double hand transplant. He and his wife, Jessica, have made his story go viral “Her Publicist’s Face Says It All”: People Are Appalled At This ...