Charla Nash, before and after. The undated photo on the right shows Nash after having received a full face transplant in May 2011 (Photo: Brigham and Women's Hospital / Reuters)
+Trauma | August 11, 2011

First Photo Released of Charla Nash, Face-Transplant Recipient

By Sora Song

Charla Nash, who lost her face and hands after being mauled by a friend’s 200-lb. pet chimpanzee two years ago, is recovering well from her face-transplant surgery in May. On Thursday, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston released the first photo of Nash with her new face.

+Quotes | June 10, 2011

“She will eventually be able to eat a hamburger, something she said was very important her, having only had pureed food since her injury, and I think we can all relate to that.”

DR. BOHDAN POMAHAC, who led the 30-member surgical team at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston that transplanted a new face to Charla Nash, 57, who was viciously mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee in February 2009. Nash's procedure in May was the third full face transplant in the U.S. Her skin, underlying muscles, blood [...]

+Quotes | April 19, 2011

“You know, little things.”

—EMILY FENNELL, 26, recipient of the first hand transplant in the western U.S., about the things she looks forward to doing with her new hand: putting her hair into a ponytail, cutting a steak with a fork and knife, hugging her 6-year-old daughter “with both hands.” Fennell, a single mom from Yuba City, Calif., received [...]

+Public Health | September 3, 2010

The Daily Dose: Pill Popping, Hand Transplants and How Unemployment Makes You Sick

By Meredith Melnick
REUTERS/Mark Blinch

RxAmerica: Nearly half of all Americans have taken a prescription drug in the last month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center of Health Statistics. So what are we on?