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2024	The Skin I Live In Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino names the film one of the best films of the 21st century.
February 2024	Face transplant 30-year-old Derek Pfaff received a full-face transplant from an anonymous donor, 10 years after a suicide attempt in March 2014.
June 30 2023	Custom-made medical device Deadline for medical devices in Great Britain to conform to either UK MDR 2002 (as amended) or the EU MDR.
May 2023	Face transplant A team of 140 doctors at NYU Langone Health conducted the first combination eye transplant and partial face transplant on a 46-year-old linesman who was electrocuted in 2021, resulting in the loss of the lower portion of his face and left eye. The transplanted eye successfully received blood flow to the retina, though vision was not restored.
2021	Hair removal A systematic review involving 25 studies and 8,919 participants comprehensively examines different techniques for pre-surgical hair removal, concluding that razors likely increase surgical site infection risks compared to alternative methods like clippers or hair removal cream.
May 26 2021	Custom-made medical device Delayed full implementation date of EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR), replacing the previous Medical Devices Directive (MDD).
January 15 2021	Hand transplantation First double-arm and double-shoulder transplant performed on Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson by doctors in France.
2020	Custom-made medical device The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (Statutory Instrument 2020/1478) further amended the UK Medical Devices Regulations, removing EU MDR provisions.
August 12 2020	Face transplant At NYU Langone Health in New York, Eduardo D. Rodriguez led a 23-hour procedure to transplant the face and bilateral hands of a brain dead donor onto 22-year-old Joe DiMeo, who had sustained disfiguring burns in a 2018 car accident.
April 23 2020	Custom-made medical device Regulation (EU) 2020/561 was adopted, deferring full implementation of EU MDR by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 31 2020	Custom-made medical device The United Kingdom officially left the European Union, ending the previous regulatory framework for custom-made medical devices.
2019	Custom-made medical device The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (Statutory Instrument 2019/791) were prepared to transpose EU Medical Device Regulation in preparation for UK's departure from the EU.
2019	Face transplant Major UKRI grant awarded to historian Fay Bound Alberti to research the ethics and success of face transplants, initiating the Interface project bringing together international surgeons to improve the medical procedure.
December 13 2019	Rabid Rabid was remade by directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, starring Laura Vandervoort in the lead role of Rose. This remake revisited the original 1977 horror film's premise.
July 27 2019	Face transplant Robert Chelsea became the oldest person and first Black person to receive a full face transplant at Brigham and Women's Hospital, following a car accident in 2013 that caused burns over 75% of his body.
September 2018	Face transplant Two days after the initial partial face transplant, surgeons had to replace the facial graft with autologous tissue due to complications. The patient survived and is currently awaiting a second face transplantation.
September 2018	Face transplant A 49-year-old woman with Neurofibromatosis type I received a partial face transplant from a 21-year-old girl at Sant'Andrea Hospital of Sapienza University in Rome. The complex procedure lasted 27 hours and was performed by surgical teams led by Fabio Santanelli di Pompeo and Benedetto Longo.
May 2018	Face transplant First complete face transplant in Canada performed at Hopital Maisonneuve Rosemont in Montreal, Quebec. Led by plastic surgeon Daniel Borsuk, the 30-hour surgery replaced the upper and lower jaws, nose, lips, and teeth of Maurice Desjardins, a 64-year-old man who had been injured in a hunting accident. Desjardins became the oldest person to receive a face transplant at that time.
May 25 2017	Custom-made medical device EU MDR came into force, introducing updated regulatory framework for medical device manufacturing.
May 4 2017	Face transplant Cleveland Clinic performed a 31-hour face transplant on Katie Stubblefield, who was 21 and the youngest person in the US to receive a face transplant, using a face donated by Adrea Schneider.
April 5 2017	Custom-made medical device European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) 2017/745 was published, establishing new regulatory requirements for custom-made medical devices.
November 15 2016	Face transplant Hatice Nergis died in Ankara after being hospitalized two days earlier with acute pain, following her groundbreaking partial face transplant in 2012.
June 2016	Face transplant Mayo Clinic performed a near-total face transplant on Andrew Sandness, a 32-year-old from Wyoming with facial injuries from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2006.
April 22 2016	Face transplant Isabelle Dinoire, the world's first partial face transplant recipient, died at age 49 from cancer related to her transplant medications.
August 2015	Face transplant NYU Langone Medical Center completed a face transplant for Patrick Hardison, a retired fireman, who received the face of cyclist David Rodebaugh.
July 28 2015	Hand transplantation First successful bilateral hand transplant on a child performed at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Zion Harvey, who lost his hands and feet to a life-threatening infection at age 2.
January 13 2015	Hand transplantation India's first hand transplant performed at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, where a 30-year-old man received hands from a 24-year-old accident victim.
September 2014	Face transplant Cleveland Clinic performed a face transplant on a patient with an autoimmune disease affecting the craniofacial region, marking the first such procedure.
December 30 2013	Face transplant Özkan and his team conducted Turkey's seventh face transplant surgery. 22-year-old Recep Kaya, whose face was badly deformed in a shotgun accident, received the nose, upper lip, upper jaw, and maxilla from brain-dead donor Ali Emre Küçük, aged 34. The surgery took 4 hours and 10 minutes, with the patient and donor's organs transported from different cities.
December 4 2013	Face transplant The same Polish medical team in Gliwice performed a face transplant on a 26-year-old female patient with neurofibromatosis. Two months following the operation, she was discharged from the hospital.
August 23 2013	Face transplant Surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team at Akdeniz University performed the sixth face transplant in Turkey. 54-year-old Salih Üstün received the scalp, eyelids, jaw, maxilla, nose, and half tongue from 31-year-old Muhittin Turan, who was declared brain dead after a motorcycle accident.
July 18 2013	Face transplant Özkan performed the fifth face transplant in Turkey, transplanting the face of 42-year-old Polish donor Andrzej Kucza (who died from a heart attack on 14 July) to 27-year-old Recep Sert from Bursa. This was the 25th face transplant operation globally, completed in a 6.5-hour procedure.
May 15 2013	Face transplant At the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, a 27-hour full face transplant was performed on Grzegorz, a 33-year-old male patient who lost the front of his head in a work-related machine accident. The urgent life-saving surgery was directed by Professor Adam Maciejewski, enabling the patient a chance to live a normal life with his eyes untouched.
May 16 2012	Face transplant Surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team at Akdeniz University Hospital performed Turkey's fourth full face transplant. 27-year-old Turan Çolak, whose face and ears were burnt when he fell into an oven as a child, received the face of 19-year-old Tevfik Yılmaz, who attempted suicide on 8 May and was declared brain dead on 15 May.
March 2012	Face transplant Face transplant completed at University of Maryland Medical Center on Richard Norris, who had sustained a facial gunshot injury in 1997, including all facial and anterior neck skin, both jaws, and the tongue.
March 17 2012	Face transplant Selahattin Özmen performed Turkey's third partial face transplant on Hatice Nergis, a 20-year-old woman at Gazi University hospital in Ankara. This was the first woman-to-woman transplant and the first three-dimensional transplant involving bone tissue. The patient, who had lost her upper jaw in a firearm accident six years earlier, received facial tissues from a 28-year-old donor from Istanbul who had died by suicide.
February 24 2012	Face transplant A surgical team led by Serdar Nasır performed Turkey's second full face transplant at Hacettepe University's hospital in Ankara. 25-year-old Cengiz Gül, who was badly burned in a television tube implosion accident as a child, received the face of an undisclosed 40-year-old donor who experienced brain death following a motorcycle accident on 17 February.
January 21 2012	Face transplant Turkish surgeon Ömer Özkan and his team performed the first full face transplant in Turkey at Akdeniz University hospital in Antalya. 19-year-old Uğur Acar, who was badly burnt in a house fire as a baby, received the face of 39-year-old Ahmet Kaya, who died on 20 January.
2011	The Skin I Live In The film was nominated for 16 Goya Awards.
2011	The Skin I Live In The film is ranked No. 25 on The New Yorker's list of 'The 26 best films of 2011'.
2011	The Skin I Live In The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
2011	The Skin I Live In The film won Best Film Not in the English Language at the 65th BAFTA Awards.
December 2011	Face transplant A 54-year-old man underwent a groundbreaking partial face transplant in Belgium, focusing on the lower two-thirds of the face, including bone reconstruction. The complex 20-hour operation was led by plastic surgeon Phillip Blondeel and a multidisciplinary team, marking the first use of 3D CT planning for such a procedure. The patient achieved good motor and sensory function recovery and successful social reintegration.
October 2011	The Skin I Live In Manohla Dargis of The New York Times publishes a Critics' Pick review, describing the film as an 'existential mystery' and 'melodramatic thriller'.
October 14 2011	The Skin I Live In The film was released in the United States in a limited run through Sony Pictures Classics.
October 12 2011	The Skin I Live In The film had its American premiere at the 49th New York Film Festival.
September 2 2011	The Skin I Live In The film premiered in Spain, its home country.
August 26 2011	The Skin I Live In The film was released in the United Kingdom through 20th Century Fox.
May 2011	The Skin I Live In Kirk Honeycutt from The Hollywood Reporter reviews the film, noting Almodóvar's blend of science-fiction and horror elements.
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