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, ...

After hand transplant surgery, Lindsay Ess had to relearn what hands could do. Jan. 5, 2013— -- After receiving a radical double hand transplant surgery, Lindsay Ess had to relearn what her hands ...

An 18-year-old from Gujarat regained a chance at a normal life through a bilateral hand transplant performed in Mumbai. The ...

Zion Harvey lost his hands and feet because of an infection at age 2. — -- The youngest recipient of a dual hand transplant may be through his surgery, but the real test of the transplant’s ...

Mumbai, Jan 20: In a rare and clinically significant achievement in Indian transplant medicine, an 18-year-old student has ...

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will begin a new program that will offer hand transplants, directed by L. Scott Levin, MD, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer news report. The program ...

A quadruple amputee is looking forward to finally being able to open her own Xmas pressies this year after receiving the ‘gift’ of a hand transplant. Kim Smith, 64, lost all her limbs after ...

PHILADELPHIA -- 8-year-old Zion Harvey told his doctors he wanted to throw a football. It was almost impossible, because Zion had lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago. But he may ...

After a two-year review, the Institutional Review Board at the Boston Children’s Hospital approved the hand transplant program, the first in the world of its kind, according to a Boston Globe report.

July 7, 2003 — Editor's Note: A French-Italian team performed the first hand transplant in September 1998, but the hand had to be removed after 23 months because the patient was not compliant with ...

“I don’t know how to express that in words, that gratitude,” said Luka Krizanac, who underwent a double hand transplant 17 years after amputation Luka Krizanac was 12 when parts of his arms and legs ...