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...sensors that react to physical activity and automatically increase or decrease the heart rate and blood pressure. The prosthesis also uses new composite bio-tech materials, which are made from animal tissue and chemically treated to eliminate the risk of blood clots, Carpentier says, a problem that has plagued earlier alternatives. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Most earlier mechanical hearts - such as the seminal Jarvik 7 and other ventricular assist devices - were not designed to replace diseased hearts entirely, but to assist impaired function and bridge heart patients to transplant. Other total artificial hearts, meanwhile, such as the U.S.-developed AbioCor and a prototype being tested by MagScrew, have not successfully modulated beating and pulse according to the physical needs of the host...
...could look into stores without being chased away, but people were encouraged to look and even stare. (This was such a new-fangled notion that some department stores had to hire professional “window gazers” to help the trend catch on.) Bu ilding on these earlier techniques of layout and design, department store windows of the 50s and 60s were the context in which art and fashion literally merged. Window dressers began to use actual works of art from emerging artists as the background to their displays. Fun fact: it was in show windows...
...asked me if I would have ran for mayor I would have said, and did tell people, ‘No,’” Purcell says, leaning on the table as he had done earlier while discussing the beginning of his interest in child welfare...
Visiting Professor Dale M. Cendali successfully argued before a New York court earlier this year that a Harry Potter fan Web site, whose content was slated to be published as a book, would have infringed upon J.K. Rowling’s creative rights as an author...