Face transplants

Face-Off: The Audi A5 Veyron

CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008

Our post on the car-face transplants –see details here, inspired one of our readers to produce “face-off” creation. Darren combined the front-end of the Audi A5 Coupe with the hood and grille of the Bugatti Veyron supercar and the result goes to show you how well VW Group’s products blend with eachother… If any of you would like to create your own “face-off” models, just...

[COOL] Face Off

FAZED (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008

It appears full face transplants are now a reality. A gentleman with the same condition as "The Elephant Man" gets a whole lot closer to looking normal. Comments

The Beginning of Face Transplants in the U.S.

Women's Bioethics Project (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008

Last year WBP discussed the first-ever, medical breakthrough face transplant in 2005, that transformed the quality of life for a French woman mauled by her pet Labrador retriever. That patient—whose... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Boston hospital gets OK for face transplants

Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008

The New England Organ Bank authorized Brigham and Women's hospital to perform partial face transplants. The first candidates will be recipients of donated kidneys because those patients are already on immunosuppressant drugs.

• Partial face transplants planned in Boston - Boston Globe
• Boston Hospital First to Offer Face Transplants in U.S. - Fox News

Facing up to face transplants

BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008

The BBC News website looks at how the ethical and medical debate around face transplants.

Celebrities without necks

Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008

FreakingNews is an image competition site which features Photoshop contests inspired by the news, and often includes celebrity-related contests. Their most popular contests are the very disturbing (warning on this link) Mouth Eyes and the more tolerable Face Transplants, which features different celebrity features morphed together to create a single face. A contest that involved...

The Photoshop Awards: Taylor Dayne?

Dlisted (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008

I'm not sure if that's a rubber doll or Taylor Dayne ? The words claim it's Taylor Dayne, but I'm skeptical. This is some scary shit. It's black magic. Poor Taylor. She looks like she just got one of those face transplants. Whatever it is, throw it out the window. I don't need that dark shit around the house. Heidi Montag and Ashley Tisdale better take note. This is what they are going...

Mouth Eyes

haha.nu (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007

Crazy photoshopping by Freaking News (remember that collection of face transplants'). Click on the image to see the entire gallery. Warning: some of them are really disturbing. Images copyright @ Freaking News. @ haha.nu.

Injured troops offered faceswap

Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007

THE British surgeon pioneering face transplants has offered to treat war veterans who have suffered disfiguring battle injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Today in Science (1127)

Stranger Fruit (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007

Events 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope , the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

How Face Transplants Work

HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007

Your face is how the world sees you. But what if something awful happened to it? In 2005, Isabelle Dinoire was the first recipient of a face transplant. How do doctors transplant a face, and is it a good idea?

Are You Unsatisfied With Your Current Treatment for Hair Loss?

Baldiness (Free subscription) | 10/14/2007

Is Rogaine or Propecia not doing what you expect it to? What about hair plugs - are they looking a little unnatural? You may want to consider an actual scalp transplant. That's right, you read that correctly. I said scalp transplant. Thanks to successful surgeries such as a face transplant, and immunosuppressant [...]

Risks Associated With Face Transplant May Be Lower Than Previously Thought, ASPS Journal Review Suggests

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007

Face transplants, once on the fringe of medicine, may eventually become more mainstream because of new estimates that suggest the risk of tissue rejection might be lower than previously thought, according to a recent review in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery® (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). [click link for full article]

Risks Associated With Face Transplants May Be Lower Than Previously Thought, ASPS Journal Review Suggests

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Face transplants, once on the fringe of medicine, may eventually become more mainstream because of new estimates that suggest the risk of tissue rejection might be lower than previously thought, according to a recent review in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(R) (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society...

Transplant woman tells of her life with a new face (Angelique Chrisafis/Guardian)

WeSmirch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2007

Transplant woman tells of her life with a new face — The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant has learned to eat and speak but has yet to manage her biggest challenge: a kiss. — Isabelle Dinoire, who lost her mouth and nose after a dog bite … Source: Guardian Author: Angelique Chrisafis Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0…...