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...heart doctors remember all too well what happened to the handful of patients who were given artificial hearts in the 1980s. Each of them was tethered to a large external compressor that powered the device through tubes into the body. The first recipient, a retired dentist named Barney Clark, developed serious infections that ravaged his body. The artificial pump also triggered a lot of blood clots. The long, lingering death of one man in particular, William Schroeder, who was kept alive for 620 days with much of his brain destroyed, soured many physicians and the public on the artificial heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Artificial Heart, Revisited | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...patient's new heart is the AbioCor, made by Abiomed of Danvers, Mass. It is the second type of totally artificial heart to be tested in people - the Jarvik-7, you may recall, was implanted in patient Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982 - but it is a great leap forward. The Jarvik-7 was air-driven, which meant that tubes had to connect huge compressors to the device. Mobility was impossible; infection and complications were inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The Artificial Heart Recipient | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...Some SAS members also took offense to the "overtly political" nature of the HSI event, which featured speeches by Martin Peretz, a lecturer in Social Studies, as well as U.S. Representative Barney Frank '61, both of whom placed blame on the Palestinian population for the deaths of its citizens...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Middle East Tensions Flare Up on Campus | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

DESIGNER Hong Kong's Barney Cheng "He respects women, making them comfortable with glamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enthusiasms: Jun. 4, 2001 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...February, a few weeks after George W. Bush took office, liberal leaders gathered to plot strategy at the National Press Club in Washington. John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO was there, along with activists, think-tank bosses, and Congressmen like Barney Frank and Jesse Jackson, Jr. But one longtime mainstay of the American left was missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spring of Ralph Nader's Discontent | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

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