Brooklyn Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants Now
Great news if you can't grow a beard and have a few thousand dollars to spare: "Facial hair transplants" are reportedly on the rise in New York.
Disabled Patients Say Doctors Are Denying Them Organ Transplants
Five-month old Maverick Higgs was born with a severe heart defect, and two surgeries later was still in heart failure. He needed a heart transplant, and fast. But after initially saying he was a candidate, the child's New York-Presbyterian doctors decided there was nothing more they could do to help. They said…
Surgeons at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, China, say they transplanted a genetically modified piece of pig liver into a Tibetan macaque this month, according to the state-run China Daily. The gene-altered pig-monkey was reportedly in stable condition at the army-affiliated research facility.
Scientists Can Now Grow Human Noses, Parts of Hearts in Jars
Why get a kidney on the black market, when you can just make one in a jar?
Bin Laden Had a Kidney Transplant, Shaved His Beard Once
Two gems from The New York Times' story about Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani Army brigadier on a "quixotic" mission to find out everything about Osama bin Laden's last days:
Chimera Monkeys Are Coming for Your Baby
Implant cancer! Brain melting! Autism vaccines! Big tumor! Drug users! Chimera monkeys! Face transplants! Yoga danger! And the future of your baby, made clear! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—but not for long!
Happy Birthday, Neptune!
Neptune day! Lyme disease! Solar dearth! Towel robots! Leg transplants! Runaway elephants! Owl vision! Ocean heat! And the utter failure of the US space program continues! It's your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—extra-terrifically!
Los Angeles Gets Its Very First Papaya King
Papaya King, the red and orange hot dog emporium that has been adding heartburn to Manhattanites' hangovers for decades, finally opened a branch in Los Angeles. So far there are lines out the block for the New York chain's famous hot dogs. Does this mean we're finally going to get an In 'N' Out Burger?
Man Cured of HIV with Stem Cells
German doctors who gave an HIV-positive patient with leukemia a bone marrow transplant from a donor resistant to HIV infection claim that, four years later, the patient is free of both cancer and HIV. That is some strong marrow!
Donated Liver Survives Plane Crash, Transplant a Success
A private plane carrying a donated liver crashed and burst into flames today in Britain, injuring the two pilots. Rescue workers arrived on motorcycles, found the liver, and rushed it to the hospital where it was successfully transplanted. Damn. [ABC]
Spanish Doctors Perform First Full Face Transplant
Barcelona doctors have performed the world's first full face transplant on a man injured in a shooting accident. There had been partial face transplants before, but this was the whole thing. Like a pancake on a bowling ball. [Telegraph]
Coming Soon to a Dystopia Near You: Womb Transplants
They successfully did it on a rabbit, and should be able to work their way up to humans in two years. The wombs will come from dead people.
