The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Happened – Maybe

By |Dec 20, 2017|Spinal Cord Injury|

In 1954, the first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham Hospital in Boston. (It was a kidney.) Since then, medical science has allowed for the transplant of almost every human body part: lungs, livers, corneas, hands – even whole faces. An Italian surgeon named Sergio Canavero announced in November that he is ready to [...]