https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A man whose body rejected a face transplant he received seven years ago has been given a second donor face after living nearly two months without one, French medical agencies said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180120/second-face-transplant-for-frenchman-in-world-first Sat, 20 Jan 2018 05:31:12 +0100 second-face-transplant-for-frenchman-in-world-first A French amputee has hit out at her country's health system claiming she was forced to get a double hand transplant on the other side of the Atlantic - even though France was the first country in the world to do a hand transplant. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161007/frenchwoman-forced-to-fly-to-us-for-hand-transplant Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:05:24 +0200 frenchwoman-forced-to-fly-to-us-for-hand-transplant In what’s been hailed as a first in France, surgeons have successfully operated on a foetus in the mother’s womb to correct the birth defect, spina bifida. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141119/french-surgeons-operate-on-foetus-in-womb Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:15:00 +0100 french-surgeons-operate-on-foetus-in-womb A French doctor has been suspended from practicing medicine after a botched penis enlargement procedure that left his patient with an obvious “irregularity” in his manhood. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141008/french-doc-suspended-after-botched-penis-surgery Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:36:00 +0200 french-doc-suspended-after-botched-penis-surgery Surgeons in France used hypnotism to perform an operation on a singer’s throat, so she would be able to sing throughout the surgery allowing them to make sure her vocal chords were not damaged. It’s been described as a world’s first. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140616/hypnotised-patient-sings-through-throat-op Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:05:00 +0200 hypnotised-patient-sings-through-throat-op In a strange tribute to France's iconic monument, scores of Chinese graduates are paying for plastic surgery to make their noses resemble the Eiffel Tower. The move may sound like a wind-up but is the latest tactic to help jobseekers get their noses in front. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140130/eiffel-tower-nose-surgery-booms-in-china Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:30:00 +0100 eiffel-tower-nose-surgery-booms-in-china A French mother who gave birth to a child at a Normandy hospital in November got a nasty shock this week after learning the pain she had felt was down to a pair of pliers that a surgeon had left in her womb. The implement had lain undiscovered for six weeks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131220/surgeon-forgets-pliers-in-young-mothers-stomach Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:21:00 +0100 surgeon-forgets-pliers-in-young-mothers-stomach France was hit by yet another medical scandal on Thursday when it emerged that surgeons have fitted around 650 people with prosthetic hip and knee replacements that had not been certified as being up to European standards. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130502/france-hit-by-new-scandal-over-prosthetics Thu, 02 May 2013 15:04:00 +0200 france-hit-by-new-scandal-over-prosthetics A patient recovering from heart surgery has launched legal action after finding his doctor left him more than a prescription for painkillers. Mysterious pains led to the discovery of several pieces of a metal probe in his arteries. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130424/heart-surgeon-leaves-16-cm-of-metal-in-patient Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0200 heart-surgeon-leaves-16-cm-of-metal-in-patient An 11-year-old boy from Hérault who fell on the handlebars of his bicycle last May learned this week that a brake lever was lodged in his thigh for four months without his being aware of it. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120907/brake-lever-stuck-in-boys-thigh-for-four-months Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:57:00 +0200 brake-lever-stuck-in-boys-thigh-for-four-months