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Face transplants can work, studies show

LONDON (Reuters) - New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/scienceNews?a=JUyqgc"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/scienceNews?i=JUyqgc" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=hYVIaK"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=hYVIaK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=lIfRmk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=lIfRmk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=M5uGmk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=M5uGmk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/371379787" height="1" width="1"/>