Federal regulators said Friday they are reviewing the effects of a novel antibiotic that has resulted in three cases of severe liver problems, including one that has resulted in death. They are looking at a number of U.S. cases involving the drug and are also consulting with regulators overseas.

A patient at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. died after taking Ketek (generic name: telithromycin), according to the Associated Press. Ketek is an FDA-approved antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections from bronchitis to pneumonia

Despite surgeon's concerns, the world's first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to start smoking again. Doctors fear it could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection. At the same time, however, the procedure is gaining more and more support worldwide in its aftermath.

The woman's French surgeons made their first scientific presentation on the partial face transplant at a medical conference in the U.S. this week

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center broke medical records and made history by performing 119 heart transplants in 2005, a one-year record for any one medical center in the history of heart transplantation worldwide.

The medical center has the largest heart transplant program in the country, and has performed more than 1,700 transplants since the beginning of its heart transplant program in 1977

Doctors transplant two new "thumbs" onto a former Peruvian army officer whose hands were mangled after mishandling an explosive device.

Francisco del Alamo-Benavente, 22, had one of his toes transplanted to one hand and an index finger from one hand converted into a thumb for the other

President Bush has signed into law a bill establishing a national umbilical cord blood program allowing federal funding to collect and store cord blood for life-saving blood cell transplants and reauthorizing the existing national Registry for marrow donors.

The program is being called the C. W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program in honor of Rep Young (R-Fla) bill contribution