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The recipient of the transplant was a 38-year-old woman who was severely disfigured after being attacked by a dog, said the surgeon, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyons. The operation was carried out in Amiens on Sunday. In a brief telephone interview, Dubernard said the two surgical teams grafted a nose, lips and chin from a donor who had been declared brain dead onto the woman's face

The woman who received the transplant Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: What were the indications' for the transplant, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant. Photo: A FIRST: Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyon, France, collaborated on the first partial face transplant, performed Sunday in Amiens. Dubernard performed the first hand-forearm transplant in 1998

The trapping included 679 bats. The scientists found either evidence of the immune globulin (G) protein specific to Ebola virus in the blood, or fragments of the virus in the liver or spleen, of three species of bats -- Hypsignathus monstrosus, Epomops franqueti and Myonycteris torquata

The woman who received the transplant Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face

The woman who received the transplant on Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. Dr. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyons, where he works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: what were the indications' for the transplant, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant. PHOTO; Associated Press: French surgeon Jean-Michel Dubernard, who performed the face transplant, is famous in his field. In 1976, he performed Europe's first pancreas transplant. He also led teams that performed a hand transplant in September 1998 and the world's first double forearm transplant in January 2000

The coalition said its report was the first systematic analysis of efforts to scale up antiretroviral therapy based on the research of people living in communities in six of the countries most devastated by AIDS: the Dominican Republic, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia and South Africa. In Russia, nongovernmental groups have made important contributions in programs to prevent H.I.V., and some have made innovative suggestions about how to scale up treatment, said Shona Schonning who represented a group of people living with AIDS. Last week, the lower house of Russia's Parliament moved to impose greater control over charities and other private organizations. If the Russian crackdown affects groups that are supporting efforts to prevent and treat AIDS ''it could be very damaging to scale up antiretroviral'' programs, Ms. Schonning said in the news conference

As the C.D.C. joined with cooperative airlines to meet flights and later collect information about passengers who had contact with others who developed SARS, the epidemiologists had to compile and process by hand data collected from flight manifests, customs declarations and other sources. The new proposals call for captains to bypass local health officials and report instead to the director of the C.D.C. through quarantine officials or e-mail messages. The C.D.C., in turn, would notify local health officials. The airlines' trade group, the Air Transport Association, issued a statement late yesterday on the C.D.C. proposal: ''There no doubt is a need to update the current regulations to ensure the absolute safety of our passengers and employees. To what extent changes need to be made to existing practices will be done cooperatively with the C.D.C. through this proposed rule making.'' The group declined to elaborate

In the first controlled study of the effects of pet therapy in a random sample of acute and critically ill heart patients, anxiety as measured on a standard rating scale dropped 24 percent for those visited by a dog and a human volunteer, by 10 percent for those visited by a volunteer alone and not at all for those with no visitors

Kuschyk, whose main research field is sudden death, said his interest in roller coasters began when a journalist asked about the dangers of coasters to the heart. When Kuschyk searched databases, he found no studies in scientific journals. One potential danger is a coaster's magnetic brakes, which can interfere with the function of pacemakers and defibrillators, Kuschyk said. The study, conducted in Hassloch, Germany, involved 55 adults and Expedition GeForce, a 120-second ride that starts with a 62-meter, or 203-foot, ascent followed by a free fall. The coaster has changes in gravity of six G's in four seconds, and a maximum speed of 120 kilometers an hour, or 75 miles an hour. The author, Dr. Jurgen Kuschyk, a cardiologist at the University of Mannheim, found that one participant's heart rate reached 200 beats a minute, which could cause dangerous rhythm abnormalities