US proposes regulating face, hand transplants

Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants just as kidneys, hearts and other organs are now, with waiting lists, a nationwide system to match and distribute body parts and donor testing to prevent deadly infections.

Read the whole article on Physorg

More from Physorg

Learn more about

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net