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16-Year-Old Heart Patient Makes Medical History
Houston :: TX :: USA | 25 days ago
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Year-Old Heart Patient Makes Medical History Thursday, November 12, 2009 Texas Children's Hospital Texas Children�s Hospital cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. David L.S. Morales, shares a laugh with his patient, 16-year old Frank De Santiago. Texas Children�s...
Tags: Dr. David L.S. Morales, Dr. David Morales, Frank De Santiago, Texas Children’s Hospital, pediatric hospitals, assist device, medically history, cardiovascular surgeon, heart failure, heart patient, Houston, Transplantation medicine, HeartMate, Ventricular assist device, Artificial heart, Texas Children's Hospital, Cardiology, Implants, Artificial organs, Health Medical Pharma
ARTIFICIAL HEART
Your heart is the engine inside your body that keeps everything running. Basically, the heart is a muscular pump that maintains oxygen and blood circulation through your lungs and body. In a day, your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood. Like any...
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Scientist Developing Artificial Heart Inspired by Cockroach
Kharagpur :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Scientist Developing Artificial Heart Inspired by the Cockroach Saturday, October 03, 2009 A ground-breaking $2,400 artificial heart inspired by the anatomy of the cockroach could revolutionize human cardiac care, scientists in India believe. The development...
Tags: heart inspired, artificial heart, scientist developing, developing artificial, India, Kharagpur
First artificial heart implant operation in Lebanon
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
Credibility The first artificial heart implant operation in Lebanon was performed at the American University Beirut Medical Center on August 28 and was announced successful on Thursday. The patient, 37, and a father of four, suffered severe heart failure prior to...
Tags: Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, heart implant, Pierre Sfeir, artificial heart, Lebanese
World's most advanced artificial heart, as good as real
Scientists have been working on designing a fully implantable artificial heart since early 1960’s.The first clinical application of a permanent fully implantable total artificial heart AbioCor was implanted in a patient during 2001. Some limitations...
Tags: artificial heart, smart heart
Pfizer resuming ads for Lipitor after controversy
Singapore :: Singapore | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lipitor generates more than $12 billion a year in revenue for New York -based Pfizer. Its patent expires in 2011, yet ads for the pill have been off the air since February. Pfizer had run frequent TV ads from late 2006 until then in which artificial heart...
Tags: Dr. Robert Jarvik, Lipitor, artificial heart
Artificial heart transplant performed in Blore
Bangalore :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Artificial heart transplant performed in Bangalore Wednesday, 09 April , 2008, 22:53 Bangalore: A private super specialty hospital here on Wednesday claimed that it had performed "Asia's first ever" artificial heart transplant on a 54-year-old man
Tags: heart, surgery, artificial heart, heart transplant
Pfizer pulls Lipitor ads with heart expert Jarvik
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Pfizer Inc said on Monday it was voluntarily withdrawing advertising for its Lipitor cholesterol drug featuring heart specialist Robert Jarvik, saying its ads led to "misimpressions." The ads involving Jarvik had come under scrutiny, including from
Tags: Dr. Robert Jarvik, artificial heart, lipitor ad, Dr. Jarvik, Lipitor, pull lipitor, Pfizer, Treasury Department, pfizer pull, cholesterol drug
Artificial heart inventor returns to spotlight - and controversy
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dr. Robert Jarvik is best known for the artificial heart he developed more than a quarter-century ago...The ads have depicted him rowing a one-man racing shell swiftly across a mountain lake, among other outdoorsy pursuits. "When diet and exercise
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