Boston Hospital Gets First U.S. Go-Ahead for Face Transplants
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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 Medical School Professor of Surgery Emeritus later went on to pioneer allografts, tissue and organ transplants between genetically different individuals of the same species, in 1959 and cadaveric renal transplants in 1962.
Now Brigham and Women’s Hospital is back in the international headlines. The New …read more
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