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  ‘New chance at life’: Man gets face, hands in rare surgery

  World | February 04, 2021 9:19 IST

  Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. 

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  Inter-gender hand transplant patient's limb colour soon changes to match hers

  Science | March 07, 2020 10:07 IST

  In a first, A hand transplant patient's new hands ended up turning the same colour as the rest of her skin. The doctors stated that this is the first case of the intriguing health phenomenon. 

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  Amrita Hospital in Kochi becomes first one in Asia to carry out upper-arm double hand transplant

  Lifestyle | September 28, 2017 12:13 IST

  19-year-old Shreya got an upper-arm transplant at Amrita Hospital, Kochi in 2015.

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  10-year-old Zion Harvey becomes the youngest to receive hand transplantion in the world- Lancet

  Lifestyle | July 19, 2017 13:59 IST

  At the age of two, Zion Harvey lost both his limbs and feet to an infection.