Forty surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other clinicians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) operated for 10 hours on an 8-year-old-boy earlier this month to achieve the world's first ...

In early July 2015, a 40-member multidisciplinary team from plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopaedic surgery, anesthesiology, and radiology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), ...

A devastating workplace accident left Hector Picard without his right arm and only half of his left arm. Today, 23 years later, he’s become an accomplished triathlete, inspiring others with his ...

A 29-year-old man has successfully undergone a double hand transplant, a procedure hospital staff are referring to as a “medical marvel six years in the making.” Luka Krizanac — from Zurich, ...

MENDON, N.Y. (WHEC) — We’ve all heard the saying in life: It’s a marathon, not a sprint. That certainly was the case for Deb Marcuccilli, 66, a Mendon resident, when she finished the 1994 New York ...

BOSTON - A quadruple amputee who received new hands through a transplant operation says he is looking forward to doing ordinary things again: getting dressed, taking a shower, making coffee and, ...

Surgeons have successfully performed the first ever bilateral hand transplant on a child. In early July, surgeons at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed the complex surgery to attach two ...

CAMP POINT, Ill. -- A live power line claimed Gerry Kinney's hands and forearms. A former lineman at Wayne-White Electric Cooperative in Fairfield, Kinney was generally regarded as the safest employee ...

Surgeons recently completed the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto 8-year-old Zion Harvey ...

Surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, ...