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Coronavirus: First Pfizer vaccine recipient reunited with family

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Coronavirus: First Pfizer vaccine recipient reunited with family

The first Pfizer vaccine recipient has left hospital and been reunited with her family. Margaret Keenan was discharged from hospital on Thursday after becoming the first person in the world to receive the approved Covid-19 vaccine while in hospital for heart checks. “Yesterday was a massive day for me personally and for the rest of … Read more

First U.S. Face Transplant Recipient Dies

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First U.S. Face Transplant Recipient Dies

Aug. 3, 2020 — The first U.S. patient to receive a partial face transplant, Connie Culp, died at 57, the Associated Press reported Saturday. Her death comes nearly 12 years after her surgery and after her husband shot her in the face in a murder-suicide attempt in 2004. Culp’s husband spent seven years behind bars. … Read more