”face” News

Want close friends? Best log off the Internet

YORK (Reuters) - Having a huge network of online buddies does not mean you have any more close friends than the rest of us, a British researcher said on Monday.
09 11 2007 12:00AM (...more)

Two years on, face transplant patients can smile: study

PARIS (AFP) - Two facial transplants -- one on a Chinese man who had half his face ripped off by a bear -- have proved highly successful two years on, opening the way for wider use of the procedure, studies released Friday report.
08 23 2008 5:09AM (...more)

Face transplants can work, studies show

LONDON (Reuters) - New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities , researchers said on Thursday.
08 22 2008 2:08PM (...more)

Computers Get Better at Face Recognition

Face-recognition systems are more accurate at identifying a face created by blending several photos of the same person than if the software relied on a single snapshot, finds a new study.
01 25 2008 10:08AM (...more)

Study: Teens value non-online meetings

NEW YORK - Teenagers still value phone calls and face-to-face meetings with friends even as they frequent online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace , a new study finds.
12 21 2007 12:04PM (...more)

How Desperate Are Bill and Hillary, Really?

Are they really getting as desperate as they seem to be? Or is this a head fake?
12 18 2007 2:44PM (...more)

World's first face, hands transplant patient dies

PARIS (AFP) – A 30-year-old French burn victim who received the world's first face and double-hand transplant died of cardiac arrest during a follow-up operation, hospital officials said Monday. Surgeon Laurent Lantieri,
06 21 2009 12:33AM (...more)

Boston hospital performs face transplant

A Boston hospital has performed the nation's second partial face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from a freak accident. Hospital spokesman Kevin Myron said the 17-hour operation took place Thursday at Harvard-affiliated 04 11 2009 9:57AM (...more)

French surgeons give burn victim new face, hands

PARIS (Reuters) – French surgeons have replaced parts of a burn victim's face and hands using donor tissue, in what their hospital said was the world's first combined operation of that kind. The surgeons began with the hand
04 7 2009 1:44PM (...more)

French hospital performs face, hand transplants

PARIS – Dozens of doctors working in teams over 30 hours performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant during the weekend, Paris' Public Hospital authority said Monday. The
04 7 2009 9:19AM (...more)