LATEST HEALTH NEWS – Daily Mail

Isabelle Dinoire had a triangle of face tissue from a brain-dead woman’s nose, chin and mouth transplanted in a 15-hour operation at Amiens Hospital, France, in 2005, after her pet labrador attacked her while she was unconscious from taking sleeping pills. She spent years taking immunosuppressant drugs to stop her body rejecting the transplant but which left her susceptible to cancer. Miss Dinoire, pictured before the attack (top inset), immediately after surgery (bottom inset) and in 2009 (main) admitted struggling with her identity for years after receiving the new facial features. Today, hospital officials confirmed she died in April, aged 49, following a long illness, believed to be cancer.