Explore news coverage about the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

2020

• More Hospitals Offering Uterus Transplant (10/22/20)
• Hospital weighs performing first-ever penis transplant surgery on transgender man (10/9/2020)
• Dream Team Designed for Collaboration (5/7/20)

2019

• Meet the wounded veteran who got a penis transplant (10/14/19)
• In Mice: Transplanted Brain Stem Cells Survive Without Anti-Rejection Drugs (09/19/19)
• ​What it's Like to Get a Penis Transplant (06/04/19)
• Can Men Get Lymphedema After Cancer Treatment? (01/30/19)

2018

• Milton Edgerton, trailblazing plastic surgeon for children and transgender patients, dies at 96 (07/17/18)
• Arm Transplant Patient Recovering After 'Freak Accident' Ripped Off Limb (06/12/18)
• ​What Is Gender Affirming Surgery?  (05/25/18)
• A New Center for Children with Complex Cranial Conditions (05/14/2018)
• ‘Whole Again’: A Vet Maimed by an I.E.D. Receives a Transplanted Penis (04/23/18)
• Wounded soldier receives historic penis transplant (04/23/18)
• Here's how surgeons performed the world's first penis and scrotum transplant (04/25/18)
• Hopkins celebrates first penis transplant (04/24/18)
• Hands, faces and a penis: Monumental transplants from recent history in Baltimore and beyond (04/23/18)
• Johns Hopkins performs world's first 'total' penile transplant, on veteran wounded by IED blast (04/23/18)
• First-Ever Penis and Scrotum Transplant Makes History at Johns Hopkins (04/23/18)
• Giving Humanistic and Empathetic Care (04/16/2018)
• NEW DISCOVERIES | Johns Hopkins focused on finding medical breakthroughs (02/03/18)

2017

• Hopkins Entrepreneurs, Alums Land on Baltimore '40 Under 40' List (08/24/17)
• Novel Surgical Technique Spurs Clinical Innovation in Craniofacial Reconstruction (03/07/17)
• Journey to Prevent Breast Cancer (11/23/17)
• More Women over 65 are Choosing Reconstruction After Mastectomy for Breast Cancer (11/01/17)
• UMBC and Johns Hopkins lead effort to extend viability of organs and body parts for transplant (10/12/17)
• What to know about acid burns (07/18/17)
• Study maps ‘uniquely devastating’ genital injuries among troops (01/13/17)

2016

• Teen requests for cosmetic surgery on the rise (12/29/16)
• Risky penis, face and hand transplants focus on improving lives – not saving them (05/17/16)
• Plastic Surgery Resident: Q&A with Dr. Amir Dorafshar (04/2016)
• Hopkins makes the case for penis transplants (02/29/16)
• Explaining How the First US Penis Transplant Will Work (02/19/16)
• Wounded U.S. soldier soon to receive first U.S. penis transplant (02/18/16)
• An Arm Transplant? It Will Just Blow Their Mind (01/26/16)

2015

• First U.S. penis transplants could help wounded troops (12/10/15)
• Penis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops (12/06/15)
• Father undergoes rare arm transplant after his left limb is torn off when he fell 40ft off Washington D.C. hotel staircase (10/21/15)
• Va. man undergoes arm transplant surgery with goal to hold his new son (09/09/15)
• The Hard Work Of Waiting For A Hand Transplant (06/09/15)
• Will A Transplanted Hand Feel Like His Own? Surgery Raises Questions (04/06/15)

2014

• Future in 3-D: Johns Hopkins turns its surgeons into artists with new 3-D technology (11/21/14)
• Top Docs 2014: Challenging Case Files (11/01/14)
• Advances in Breast Reconstruction After Cancer (10/02/14)
• Surgeons Turn to 3D and Nanorobots to Enhance Human Judgment and Skill (12/06/14)
• Update on Brendan Marrocco's Double Arm Transplant Recovery (06/30/14)
• With transplanted arms and Army grit, a quadruple amputee soldiers on (06/20/14)
• Double-Arm Transplant Recipient and Johns Hopkins Medicine Surgeon Appear on the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’  (03/05/14)
• New Brain Surgery Technique (02/03/14)