Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aaron James, a military veteran from Hot Springs Village, Ark., is shown after the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face ...

A year after undergoing the first whole-eye and partial-face transplant, Aaron James is finding beauty in the mundane. He can finally appreciate solid foods again — smelling is even a simple pleasure ...

The recipient of the world's first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well more than a year out from his groundbreaking surgery, NYU Langone doctors report. Aaron James, a 46-year ...

Three years ago, Aaron James, a utility lineman, lost half of his face and his arm when he was struck by a high-voltage electrical cable. Last year, the 47-year-old received a face and whole-eye ...

The world's first combined face and whole-eye transplantation used personalized surgical cutting guides and a novel “shortcut” to maintain blood flow to the transplanted eye. Innovative surgical ...

Over a year after a whole-eye and partial-face transplant, Aaron James has made a remarkable recovery, back to daily life in Arkansas. A surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed the world’s first ...

Surgeons have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant - although it's far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his ...

Many eye banks won’t accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. “We also found the severity of the donor’s ...

Aaron James, the world’s first patient to undergo a whole eye and partial face transplant, is healthy and thriving more than a year later. In a paper published Monday, James’ doctors at NYU Langone ...

In June of 2021 Aaron James, then 44 years old, experienced a terrible accident while working as an electrical lineman. The military veteran and Arkansas resident lost much of the left side of his ...

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.