Organ rejection
Joe DiMeo poses for a portrait, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 at NYU Langone Health in New York, six months after an extremely rare double hand and face transplant. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
'New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery

By Marion Renault And Marshall Ritzel Feb. 03, 2021 12:03 AM EST

FILE - In this May 1, 2013, file photo, Carmen Blandin Tarleton speaks at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston following a face transplant. In February 2007 her estranged husband doused her with industrial strength lye, burning more than 80 percent of her body. In July 2020, Tarleton became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo a second face transplant procedure after her first transplant failed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
AP Exclusive: Woman is 1st in US to get 2nd face transplant

By Michael Casey Aug. 07, 2020 09:33 AM EDT

In this March 15, 2020 photo provided by Jean Sinofsky, Joanne Mellady, second from right, poses with family members from front left, Jean Sinofsky, Andrew Smith, Fred Smith, and joyce Smith far right, in Methuen Mass. Mellady, who received a double lung transplant in 2007, died of the coronavirus on March 30, 2020. She was 67. (Jean Sinofsky via AP)
Lives Lost: Virus fells double-lung transplant daredevil

By Michael Casey Apr. 27, 2020 12:31 AM EDT