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To the astonishment of many experts, the two men recently given new hands in Lyon, France, and Louisville, Ky., are progressing well, without rejection crises. With less publicity, surgeons elsewhere have successfully performed experimental knee, larynx, trachea, femur, nerve and muscle transplants. Leading transplant surgeons envision a future where they can put new faces on burn patients, give a woman new breasts or a uterus, transplant penises and reconstruct jaws and neck tissues. In Madison, however, UW-Madison Medical School physicians have avoided the more exotic, nonessential transplants, fearing that the negative side effects of current powerful anti-rejection drugs would outweigh the positives of a new hand or trachea, Dr. Hans Sollinger, one of University Hospital's most well-known transplant surgeons, said Monday

Below Dr. Steven Lamm and Gerald Secor Couzens explain why [Pamela Anderson], 32, who has made headlines around the world because of her recent decision to have her breast implants removed, should be cynical about the idea that [Tommy Lee], currently undergoing periodic drug testing, anger-management sessions and counseling, is likely to reform his violent tendencies.......

To the astonishment of many experts, the two men recently given new hands in Lyon, France, and Louisville, Ky., are progressing well, without rejection crises. With less publicity, surgeons elsewhere have successfully performed experimental knee, larynx, trachea, femur, nerve and muscle transplants. Still, as word of the early successes spreads, doctors are beginning to stretch their imaginations. Leading transplant surgeons envision a future where they can put new faces on burn patients; give a woman new breasts, or even a uterus; transplant penises; and reconstruct jaws and neck tissues for patients with cancer, gunshot wounds, dog bites or accident injuries. But the new, nonvital transplants raise disturbing ethical questions. With rare exceptions, transplant recipients must, for the rest of their lives, take powerful anti-rejection drugs, whose side effects include increased risks of infection, diabetes, cancer and other conditions. Who should decide if the risk is worth the reward? Who should pay for the procedures? If they prove effective, will people be willing to donate their tissues for nonessential operations?

Transplant surgeons who once concentrated on vital organs like hearts, livers and kidneys are branching out, transplanting an array of body parts with surprising success, and possibly heralding a day when tissues not essential to life are routinely given to others. Still, as word of the early successes spreads, doctors are beginning to stretch their imaginations. Leading transplant surgeons envision a future where they can put new faces on burn patients; give a woman new breasts or even a uterus; transplant penises; and reconstruct jaws and neck tissues for patients with cancer, gunshot wounds, dog bites or accident injuries

Everyone has different sleep requirements. The important thing is to get enough sleep to awaken refreshed and feel alert throughout the day. Lamm discusses some common sleep problems and how to alleviate them

[Clint] Hallam is gaining feeling in his new fingers and hand. He has clipped new fingernails, and hair is growing on the forearm. Hallam, who says he is a former computer consultant, looks trim and healthy. He says he's going to a gym at least four hours a day and taking lessons to resume playing the piano and flying an airplane. Hallam flew halfway around the world from his home in Perth to get a dead Frenchman's hand from a team of doctors from Australia, England, France and Italy that Dr. Earl Owen, a microsurgeon in Sydney, assembled at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyons. Hallam says that eight months before the transplant, he told Owen the precise circumstances, but Owen says Hallam had told him he was a carpenter, omitting the part about prison