http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- The mother of the nation's first double hand transplant patient says he's out of the hospital and looking forward to returning to his wife and daughter in Georgia. http://www.physorg.com/news173593423.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:40:01 EST news173593423 (AP) -- The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds them. http://www.physorg.com/news167028179.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:44:04 EST news167028179 (AP) -- Valarie Kepner 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. http://www.physorg.com/news160983627.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 06:40:51 EST news160983627 (AP) -- The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news160719520.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 05:40:40 EST news160719520 (AP) -- When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains re-established connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right, a team of researchers in France reports. http://www.physorg.com/news158300806.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:27:14 EST news158300806 (AP) -- Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant. http://www.physorg.com/news158235976.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:26:41 EST news158235976 (AP) -- Surgeons have transplanted a hand onto a Marine who was hurt in a training accident, and he has some movement in his fingers, according to the hospital where the operation occurred. http://www.physorg.com/news157052378.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:39:55 EST news157052378 Four months after a successful hand transplant -- 35 years after amputation in an industrial accident at age 19 -- a 54-year-old man's emerging sense of touch is registered in the former "hand area" of the his brain, says a University of Oregon neuroscientist. http://www.physorg.com/news142775476.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:51:16 EST news142775476