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Events relating to medicine
French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens carry out the first human face transplant
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent adopt the Red Crystal for use where a non-religious emblem is preferred
The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic
Surgeons in Sweden achieve the first artificial living organ transplant, after using the patient's own stem cells to coat a plastic replica of his windpipe
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