Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Dimeo; James Eden with Weddings of Hawaii Joe DiMeo before and after his face transplant. In 2018, Joe DiMeo got in a car ...

Joe DiMeo authored 'Eighty Percent Gone,' which is named for the amount of his skin burned in the nearly 2018 fatal car accident ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last ...

Joe DiMeo was 18 when his body was burned beyond recognition in a high-speed crash that nearly took his life. The teenager fell asleep behind the wheel after clocking out of a night shift, slammed ...

Joe DiMeo is using his story to inspire others. Nearly eight years after a car crash burned 80 percent of his body, prompting the first successful dual face and double hand transplant in history, the ...

A plastic surgeon breaks down the groundbreaking procedure involving a full face and double hand transplant.

The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being disfigured by a chimpanzee attack in February 2009 said she's come a long way in her recovery and hopes to one day ride ...

The surgery involves harvesting skin, blood vessels, nerves and sometimes bone from a brain-dead donor and transplanting them ...