A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff’s life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

Two weeks after his surgery when Derek got out of ICU, Lisa took him in his wheelchair to St. Mary’s Catholic Chapel on the ...

Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring ...

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After surviving a suicide attempt, Derek Pfaff, of Harbor Beach, waited 10 years for the face transplant that has the power ...

A Michigan man can blink, swallow, smile and breathe through his nose for the first time in a decade thanks to a face ...

Joe DiMeo, 26, and his fiancée Jessica Perez, 32, shared a preview of their engagement photos on their joint Facebook account ...

March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, ...

The face of 30-year-old Derek Pfaff was left severely damaged by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2014, while he ...

Derek Pfaff tried to take his own life 10 years ago, but miraculously survived, although his face was left severely damaged.

Nearly a decade after he shot himself in a failed suicide attempt, Derek Pfaff underwent a 50-hour face transplant at Mayo ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Mayo Clinic says surgeons there successfully performed a face transplant for a Michigan man who was ...