In 2015, Dr. Sergio Canavero announced plans to perform the world’s first human head transplant on Valery Spiridonov, a ...

Two visitors stumbled upon a decaying human head in a California backyard on Friday, which may be connected to a headless corpse found in the area last month, authorities said.

By 2017, the surgeon swore, he'd conduct a human head transplant. If you’ve been paying attention to headlines today, you might think he’s followed through.

Canavero summed up his proposed head-transplant technique in a medial journal published this month. First, New Scientist reports, both the recipient head and the donor body would need to be cooled.

By this time next year, if all goes according to plan, the world's first human head transplant will have taken place, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has revealed. In early 2015, Canavero made ...