Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remnant of the old school, a showman and a gentleman. Leonard is smart and savvy. And people care about the outcome of his fights. Leonard versus Marvelous Marvin Hagler two years ago was a showdown worthy of the legacy left by the 'Thrilla fights of Ali and Joe Frazier...
...researchers have been trying to develop implantable pumps that temporarily take over part of the heart's job. Some half a dozen such devices are now available, most of them experimental, bulky and requiring risky open-heart surgery. But at a medical conference last week in Reno, O. Howard Frazier, director of the transplant program at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, described the first successful use of a radically different newcomer. It is a tiny, disposable pump that can handle most of the heart's workload and that can be inserted in 20 minutes without major surgery...
...Frazier first tried the device last month on a patient who was near death after a heart transplant. Working from an incision in the patient's groin, the surgeon threaded a 7-in. assembly made of a tube connected to a miniature, propeller-like pump through the patient's arteries and into his left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart. The stainless-steel pump, driven by a slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports...
...device works in future tests, Wampler and Frazier estimate, it might eventually be used in as many as 150,000 people a year. With a $3,000 price tag, the whirring little pump may be the ultimate rarity in medical technology: a bargain...
...Frazier said it was important to "alert the community to the fact that not only is racism still a problem, but racial violence often follows on the heels of racial attitudes...