A woman who lived without hands or legs for eight years after a sepsis infection turned her limbs black can now finally hold her granddaughter’s hand, thanks to a life-changing transplant. Kim Smith ...

PHILADELPHIA -- 8-year-old Zion Harvey told his doctors he wanted to throw a football. It was almost impossible, because Zion had lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago. But he may ...

A woman who suffered a quadruple amputation has undergone a successful hand transplant – and revealed how she is now left-handed. Kim Smith, 64, lost all her limbs after contracting an infection and ...

An eight-year-old boy who received a double hand transplant at Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia last month is recovering and making progress. Zion Harvey, who lost his limbs to a serious infection, ...

Sitting on her hospital bed, Kim Smith looks full of joy and emotion as she's about to be taken in for surgery. She wants to deliver a message. "If the donor family do ever see this, thank you very ...

Zion Harvey, 9, received a double hand transplant one year ago at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and he couldn’t be improving any better, according to CBS News. Suggested ...

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will begin a new program that will offer hand transplants, directed by L. Scott Levin, MD, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer news report. The program ...

Joe DiMeo is reflecting on his health journey seven years after undergoing the world's first successful face and double hand transplant. DiMeo, 27, was involved in a car accident that burned 80 ...

The first child in the world to undergo a double hand transplant threw out the first pitch at the Baltimore Orioles - Texas Rangers game Tuesday night. 9-year-old Zion Harvey underwent the procedure ...

AP Photo/ Matt Rourke PHILADELPHIA -- An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said.