Topic: Jeff Kepner
Bored people may be more likely to die early, according to English researchers.. They studied the responses collected between 1985 and 1988 from more than 7,500 London civil servants, ages 35 to 55, who were asked if they had felt bored ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: However, he developed a rash on both hands and was hospitalized last week, the Associated Press reported.. The new hands came from a 23-year-old male ...
Double hand transplant patient's mother says he's out of hospital, to return to Ga. this weekThe mother of the nation's first double hand transplant patient says he's out of the hospital and looking forward to returning to his ...
Imagine going for a decade without any hands and then suddenly having a new set to work with. That's what happened to Jeff Kepner, the first person to receive a double hand transplant in the U.S.. Kepner lost both his ...
Valarie Kepner says she was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first.Fifty-seven-year-old Jeff Kepner, of Augusta, Ga., had lost ...
American health insurers say they'll stop charging women higher premiums, a move seen as part of the industry's attempts to prevent creation of a government insurance plan that would compete against them.. Currently, many American women are charged more than ...
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Jeff Kepner receives the world's first double hand transplant ...2009-10-02 -
Double hand transplant recipient makes progress
Jeff Kepner, who received a double hand transplant at UPMC ...2010-01-27 -
Transplant recipient discusses progress
Jeff Kepner, the nation's first bilateral hand transplant recipient ...2010-01-22
