UPitt Med School Considers Performing Face Transplants

About a month after performing its second double hand transplant, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is considering using the technology to perform face transplants.

Dr. Joseph E. Losee and other members of the center's transplant team have asked UPMC's Institutional Review Board -- a group of surgeons, psychologists and other medical experts who work to make sure the center abides by its ethics policies -- to consider allowing it to perform face transplants.

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