When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like. Years later, as the nation's ...

A Connecticut woman grievously wounded in the face and hands this week by a rampaging chimpanzee has been transferred to the Cleveland Clinic, which two months ago performed the nation's first successful face transplant. Charla Nash was transferred from Stamford Hospital to the Cleveland facility on Thursday, three days after she was mauled by a 200-pound chimp owned by ...

She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss. Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation's first face ...

Her injuries were ghastly: no nose, no palate, no way to eat or breathe normally, a face so hideous that children who saw her screamed and ran away. From the moment they met earlier this year, Dr. Maria Siemionow knew the severely disfigured woman would be ...