Three-year-old Chinese woman Han Han became the first patient to receive a new skull created using 3D printing technology. According to doctors, without the operation the child would not have survived until the fall. Since birth, the girl suffered from hydrocephalus, a rather rare disease that results in impaired outflow of fluid...

In Texas, USA, doctors transplanted a large part of the skull and scalp from another person into a patient. Jim Boysen, 55, was left with a large open head wound from cancer treatment that could not heal. After the operation, he told the Associated news agency ...