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 […]
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 […]