The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...

Nearly a decade after he shot himself in a failed suicide attempt, Derek Pfaff underwent a 50-hour face transplant at Mayo ...

March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, bleeding in the snow from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that ripped away his ...

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Charles P. Hannon, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was honored with the American ...

Here is how the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and seven other hospitals and health systems plan to spend recently received donations: ...

Derek Pfaff has a new face a decade after attempting suicide by shooting himself in the face. He lost his nose, lips, teeth ...

Vyriad, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of targeted genetic therapies, today announced a strategic collaboration with Novartis to discover and develop in ...

A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff's life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

A member of the Saginaw Catholic community who survived a suicide attempt ten years ago has received a rare face transplant.

The team behind Derek Pfaff's transformational surgery said the procedure took around 50 hours and was performed by at least ...

Derek Pfaff, 29, shot himself in the head with a shotgun in March 2014, in a failed suicide attempt that led him to now ...