March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, ...

The Centre has mandated states to ensure that all cornea and tissue transplants are registered with the National Organ and ...

A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff’s life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

Researchers in Australia have developed a new type of 3D bioprinter that uses sound waves to coax cells toward a desired ...

The hospitals and eye banks will be required to share data on the number of patients waiting for tissue and cornea ...

Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.

Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring ...

This includes offering eyeglasses to those who need them, treating the damaged parts of the eye, say, by replacing an ...

After surviving a suicide attempt a decade ago that left his face severely disfigured, a Michigan man has received a ...

The Mayo Clinic says surgeons there successfully performed a face transplant for a Michigan man who was severely injured from ...

India is creating a centralized platform to track cornea transplant waitlists. This initiative aims to address the shortage ...

The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...