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Charla Nash—the 55-year-old who had her hands and face ripped off by a berserk chimpanzee in February 2009—will be admitted to an undisclosed Harvard-affiliated hospital to determine whether she is a potential candidate for face and hand transplant surgery, the Boston Globe is reporting...
...caustically optimistic,” said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who led the team that performed nation’s second face transplant last year, in an interview with the Associated Press...
...wedding that is shot up by Moldavian rebels; loses his fortune; tries to strangle Alexis; is charged with arson when the hotel he owns burns down, then saves his son Ben from a burning oil rig; loses his memory and regains it; finds a donor for a heart transplant for his and Krystle's child Krystina, then hears that the donor's mother has kidnapped Krystina; runs for governor of Colorado, against Alexis; loses the race, and nearly loses Krystle when she suffers a brain tumor and is left in a coma; and, in the last episode, has a shoot...
...When I get to see Jobs, he is wearing the famous black turtleneck sweater and blue Levi's 501 jeans without which I would have cried, "Impostor!" Recent weight loss from his liver transplant has imparted a delicacy that reminds me, I can't think why, of the actor William Hurt. We meet in a conference room. On every spare shelf and ledge, at least a dozen iMacs are placed, each one playing a family slide show. Jobs leans back on his chair, feet up on the table, a welcoming grin on his face. My first question is a nervous...
...continued to get worse. Weeks later, I decided to leave the country to seek treatment, but by then it was too late. The condition had already damaged my cornea. Doctors in Singapore, where many Indonesians go in search of better care, suggested a number of treatments, including a corneal transplant if the others failed to restore my sight. I opted for another opinion back in the U.S. (See the most common hospital mishaps...