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Arizona boy thankful after rare transplant in Utah

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 8:01am

SALT LAKE CITY — A 13-year-old Arizona boy is expressing thankfulness after receiving a new heart and liver in a rare procedure at a Utah hospital.

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Students at Bonnevile High School meet last week as part of the DECA student leadership organization to discuss an organ donor awareness project headed by student Jordan Little. Two people who received kidney transplants will speak to students Jan. 19. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

ORGANizing AWARENESS at Bonneville High School

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 12:34am

WASHINGTON TERRACE -- A Bonneville High School student is hoping to bring more awareness to the importance of organ donation.

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In this undated photo provided by the Nash family via Brigham and Women's Hospital, Charla Nash, of Stamford, Conn., is seen prior to being mauled by a Chimpanzee in 2009, and a subsequent face transplant. A Boston surgeon who helped perform a face and double-hand transplant on Nash says even though the hand transplants failed, the woman could undergo another hand transplant in the future. (AP Photo/Family Photo)

Chimp attack victim gets face transplant

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, June 10, 2011 - 2:23pm

BOSTON -- A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a berserk chimpanzee has received a new face in the third such operation ever performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to chewing her meals again after months of pureed food.

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(The Associated Press) This May 3 photo released by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston shows facial transplant patient Dallas Wiens with his daughter, Scarlette, after his face transplant, done the week of March 14. Wiens made his first public appearance since his operation Monday.

Full face transplant patient makes first public appearance

Russell Contreras, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:06pm

BOSTON -- The nation's first full face transplant recipient says the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was "Daddy, you're so handsome."

Dallas Wiens, sporting a goatee and dark sunglasses, joined surgeons Monday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in his first public appearance since the 15-hour procedure in March.

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Boston hospital performs full face transplant

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 21, 2011 - 11:57am

BOSTON -- A Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the nation's first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.

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