Surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will perform the nation's first double arm transplant on a Texas woman, the hospital announced Wednesday. Katy Hayes, 44, a quadruple amputee and ...

A former Boston University professor who lost all of his limbs after getting a life-threatening infection from group A streptococcus, has been approved for a bilateral arm transplant, NECN reported.

BOSTON -- In the city where Paul Revere called Americans to arms, Katy Hayes awaits her call... for arms. It s killing us, because I don t know when the call s going to come, she said. And we re ...

On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior ... very wounded." Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that ...

On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded." Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he's ...

Until a possible, if improbable, solution arose: an arm transplant. Fewer than two dozen people have undergone this procedure. Most medical centers do not perform them. Many people who consider the ...

Face and hand transplantation are relatively new in the world of surgery. The key purpose for transplants is to restore function in patients who have experienced some sort of extreme trauma, but ...

BOSTON — A former Marine sergeant who underwent a double arm transplant said Wednesday that the best part about having arms again is that he can hold his fiancee's hand and pursue his lifelong dream ...

BALTIMORE — After weeks of round-the-clock medical care, Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one ...