Through a stroke of good fortune, he has a hand transplant.

If he continues to do well, the operation will prove to be the world's first successful hand transplant.

A. I would not be giving patients immune suppression for hand transplants.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

The very first hand transplant was a failure because the patient stopped taking his medications.

Plus, the hand transplants could open the way to transplanting other tissues.

He said members had not spoken up at meetings devoted to hand transplants.

Nevertheless, even critics say that does not mean the hand transplant is not going to work.

Mr. Scott's hand transplant is the third ever performed and the second within five months.

The first hand transplant was carried out in Ecuador in 1964.