First US face transplant patient leaves hospital

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/health/stories/2009/02/09/face_transplant.html

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Associated Press

Monday, February 09, 2009

She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss.

Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation’s first face transplant patient, and on Thursday night, she went home from a Cleveland hospital.

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