Facial Transplant Face Off

Will Cleveland Clinic transplant the first face? Medical News and Cleveland's NewsChannel 5 report that the Clinic has received IRB approval to try. Louisville is also ready, it says. UPDATE - Rick Weiss discusses the Cleveland proposal.

Face Transplantation

The New York Times has devoted an essay in its health section today to The American Journal of Bioethics Target Article on Face Transplantation. The story has, Taylor & Francis tells us, been front page news in - get this - more than 800 newspapers worldwide. The Times piece, though, is the first significant mass media editorial on face transplantation and it puts a bioethics journal squarely into the mix. We're pretty happy about that. It is all the more rewarding that the exchange comes from our friends at Hastings Center!

AJOB 4:3 Double Issue is Up

The special issue contains three target articles; one, on face transplantation, made virtually every newspaper in America last Sunday. Others include The Limitations of Vulnerability by Levine et al, and Improving Fairness in Coverage Decisions by Wynia et al. Lots of other stuff. And it doesn't REALLY cost $370 a year ... just $66 ... no matter what your first renewal notice said!