Woman Able to Speak After Rare Voice-Box Transplant

For only the second time in known history, doctors have performed a successful voice-box transplant. Brenda Charett Jensen was unable to speak for more than a decade without using a device that produced robotic-sounding speech. Less than 2 weeks after her October surgery at UC Davis, she was able to…

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Woman Able to Speak After Rare Voice-Box Transplant

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