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FDA Approval Of Heart Pump May Give New Hope To Patients
August 26, 2008
Investor's Business Daily: New America - Heart transplants offer hope to more than 2,000 advanced heart failure patients each year. But roughly 250,000 people die from the chronic heart disease.
Heart Device Could Have More Uses
May 15, 2008
KEYC TV - News 12 - Right now there are close to 5-million people in America suffering from heart failure. Many of these people would benefit from a heart transplant, but because most of them are over age 65, they're often not eligible for that life-saving operation. Now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are studying a device that could be the answer.
Barnes-Jewish's Artificial Heart Program celebrates 10 years
Oct 2, 2007
South County Journal - Oct. 1, 1997 marked a significant date in the history of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. For the first time in their long history, a patient suffering from end-stage heart failure had a portable ventricular assist device (VAD) implanted to help his failing heart beat.
Quebec Man Given New Kind of Mechanical Heart
Dec 13, 2006
CTV.ca - A patient in Montreal has become the first living Canadian without a heartbeat. Last month he was given a brand new mechanical heart that pumps blood continuously using a turbine suspended in a magnetic field.
Life Without a Pulse: Quebec Man Receives Mechanical Heart
Dec 13, 2006
CBC News - "Doctors said they believe the technology will change the way heart patients are treated, providing an alternative to heart transplant surgery."
Seven Years and Still Pumping
Nov 15, 2006
UAB Headline News - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sumter, S.C. resident Sherri Selph was 41 in 1994 when first diagnosed with stage-two congestive heart failure. By 1999, her health was diminishing so rapidly that she was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, and not expected to live beyond six months.
New Pump Can Help Reverse Heart Failure
Nov 1, 2006
MSNBC - BOSTON - A device that helps severely damaged hearts pump may be able to do what was once thought impossible— reverse heart failure in people who are weeks away from death, British researchers reported Wednesday.
VADS Help Keep Heart Patients Alive
Mar 12, 2006
ABC7 News.com - San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose - If you saw Grey's Anatomy Sunday night, you're now familiar with Ventricular Assist Devices (VADS) that keep heart transplant patients alive as they wait for a donor heart. A clinical trial is taking place right now at San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) to test the newest form of VADS.
Affairs of the Heart
Oct 1, 2005
MX Magazine - Cover Story - In the medical technology industry, companies that expect to survive must be not only technologically adept, but also robust—able to endure even the most difficult of challenges that can befall a growing corporate entity.
New Lease on Life
Aug 15, 2004
Oakland Tribune - PLEASANTON—ON ITS OWN, there was little chance that the heart of former Chicago fireman James Sheeran would allow him to see his 80th birthday.
UPMC Heart-Pump Implant Its First
Jul 21, 2004
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - John Didion's first heart attack put him on disability eight years ago. His second attack, this past May, was worse.
Utahns Blaze Path in Bionic Body Parts
Nov 23, 2003
Deseret Morning News - Kenny Whitten can run a bulldozer and a backhoe. He cares for the cows on his land in Duncan, Okla., and when he has spare time, he likes to go fishing, hunting and skiing.