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...about a quarter of those patients receive transplanted hearts from donors. The need for a viable artificial alternative is clear; if Carpentier's device proves reliable and durable, it promises to shorten transplant wait-lists and save the lives of at least some of the 17 million people who die of heart disease every year. The first transplant patients will likely be the critically ill, who currently receive existing artificial hearts as end-of-life treatments, but Carpentier expects his new heart to be tested increasingly in younger heart patients whose bodies may be in better shape to recover from...
...obvious that a major restriction of any artificial heart is recharging the battery in it," says Carpentier, who says major advances in battery capacity are on the way. "But these prosthetic hearts are designed for people - some as young as 40 or 45 years old - who'd simply die without them. Considering the option, having to charge the battery once or twice a day is no huge trauma...
Long Yu has come a long way since the day in 1976 when he accidentally killed a duck. The duck was going to die anyway, but not until it had been properly fattened up in the breeding factory where Long, then 12, was required to work in the waning days of China's Cultural Revolution. The ducks were force-fed through a tube operated by a foot-pedal - a single pump per meal. One day Long got careless and accidentally pumped twice. End of duck...
...fighting began near our home in the middle of the night. There was a lot of gunfire and ‘mabombi’ —explosions [shelling]. Some people were caught in the middle of the fighting. I saw them die; and after seeing them I knew we had to run away or else we would also die with them.” And later, “Of everything though, the only thing I am asking for is peace...
...Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. They blame the Republican catastrophes of 2006 and 2008 on a party that abandoned its values. The party, not its ideology, failed, goes their mantra. It therefore stands to reason that Republicans must return to their core tax-cutting, low-spending ideology, or else die. "The party had better be what the party is, or I don't have any future in it," Limbaugh tells his audience, which often numbers nearly 20 million weekly...