Explore news coverage about the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
2020
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)