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This Father Became the First Black Man to Get a Face Transplant

This Father Became the First Black Man to Get a Face Transplant

 Robert Chelsea was 68 years old when a drunk driver hit his car as he was on his way home from a church near Los Angeles, California. The accident caused an explosion that left him with third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body and face. It also disfigured his face, leaving him with no […]

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She Lived for 99 Years with Organs in all the Wrong Places and Never Knew it

She Lived for 99 Years with Organs in all the Wrong Places and Never Knew it

On a spring day in 2018, a group of medical students at Portland’s Oregon Health and Science University began preparing a cadaver for what they thought would be a routine dissection to help them learn anatomy. The cadaver was a 99-year-old woman named Rose Marie Bentley who had lived her whole life with organs in

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