New York Mets right-hander Paul Blackburn has been shut down from throwing after experiencing a spinal fluid leak in his back, according to Tim Britton of The Athletic. Although Blackburn's injury ...

In May of 2023, there was a massive advance in the world of organ transplantation: the first whole human eye and partial face transplant. The man at the center of this procedure is 46-year-old Aaron ...

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A veteran who received the world's first whole-eye transplant recently traded in his old license plate, featuring his injured face, for a new one showing off his recovery. Utility line worker ...

An epidural block is injected into the space outside of the sac of fluid around the spinal cord called the epidural space. However, a spinal block is injected into the fluid around the spinal cord. An ...

In May of 2023, Aaron James, an electrical lineman, had the first partial face transplant to include an eye. A year after the procedure, there haven’t been signs of rejection, and there is blood ...

For Aaron James, it still hasn’t quite sunk in that he received the first successful whole-eye transplant in history ... if we figure out brain or spinal-cord regeneration,” he says.

The 46-year-old military veteran and Arkansas resident lost much of the left side of his face—including his left eye—to severely disfiguring electrical burns that also destroyed his left arm.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) --A patient who underwent the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant has healed astonishingly well more than a year after the 21-hour surgery, a new report says.

A US military veteran who received the world's first whole-eye transplant has made significant progress a year later and has been able to resume his normal life, researchers say. Aaron James ...

Elton John, who’s been recovering from a severe eye infection that left him with “limited vision in one eye,” provided an update on his condition when he stopped by Variety’s studio at the ...