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The Boston Traveler

March 7th, 2008

Boston Hospital Gets First U.S. Go-Ahead for Face Transplants

File this under FASCINATING.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has once again made history. In December 1954, future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph Murray performed the world’s first successful human organ transplant there when he transplanted a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick to his seriously ill identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The Harvard […]

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