PHILADELPHIA -- 8-year-old Zion Harvey told his doctors he wanted to throw a football. It was almost impossible, because Zion had lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago. But he may ...

A 29-year-old man has successfully undergone a double hand transplant, a procedure hospital staff are referring to as a “medical marvel six years in the making.” Luka Krizanac — from Zurich, ...

PHILADELPHIA— In a Penn Medicine medical marvel six years in the making, a 28-year-old Swiss man has hands of his own for the first time since he lost his arms and legs to major infection at age 12.

One of the newest surgeons to join the University of Arizona is aiming high - he wants to create the world's premier center for hand-transplant surgery here in Tucson. He'd also like to set up a ...

One year after receiving a double hand transplant, 9-year-old Zion Harvey is — to steal an old baseball metaphor — batting a thousand. Last summer, doctors at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of ...

July 7, 2003 — Editor's Note: A French-Italian team performed the first hand transplant in September 1998, but the hand had to be removed after 23 months because the patient was not compliant with ...

A medical student who lost limbs to meningitis has had a rare hand transplant to help her become a doctor. Becca Heritage had ...

A 20-year-old man born without fingers on one hand hopes a transplanted hand will give him more confidence. He knows the risks of such a visible... Will A Transplanted Hand Feel Like His Own? Surgery ...