A mum claims her toddler nearly died when their washing machine exploded leaving him dripping in blood with a piece of his ...

Instead, he sustained serious injuries after the washing machine exploded in his face. His mother, Amie McCarthy, found him ...

A Nevada boy with a rare skin condition had life-changing eyelid and skin graft surgery last month in San Diego.

A supplied undated image shows a 3D illustration of a cross-section of a diseased skin with melanoma. A treatment to combat advanced stage melanoma is being added to the PBS. (AAP Image/Supplied ...

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

A mum who said her washing machine exploded said her toddler was almost killed by it, and that he needed to have the tip of ...

A mum is warning parents not to let their children 'watch' the washing machine - after her's 'exploded' and left her son ...

Current treatment options for third-degree burns typically involve skin grafting, a painful procedure that involves removing healthy skin from another part of the body to cover the burned area.

Jean Dausset, who received the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1980 for his discovery of the human major histocompatibility complex (human leukocyte antigen (HLA)), died ... of skin grafts on volunteers.

You can have reconstruction surgery using: tissue from another part of the body (a flap) skin from another part of the body (a skin graft) bone from another part of the body Your surgeon might have to ...