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...chose him: Because four days after surgeons implanted the first-ever self- contained artificial heart into his chest on Monday, the patient is doing just fine...
...patient has been identified only as a man in his 50s, a man who met all the FDA's qualifications for the procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure...
...defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast - more than 200 beats per minute - Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...
...those governments responded at the first-ever U.N. General Assembly session devoted to a public health crisis, adopting the most wide-ranging global battle plan against the disease ever and beginning to breathe life into Annan's proposed global war chest to fight AIDS and other killers of the world's poorest and most vulnerable...
...stop the spread of HIV and to treat those already afflicted. That's small potatoes measured against national budgets in the industrialized nations, but it's prohibitive in the regions worst-hit by the disease. And the bad news is that Annan's drive to create a global war chest for fighting the disease has so far attracted pledges of only $528 million - a little over five percent of its projected target, and that's after donations from the world's richest country (the Bush administration pledged $200 million) and the world's richest man (the Bill and Melinda Gates...