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DeVries had grown frustrated by the nine-month delay in getting a go-ahead from the Utah medical center for a second implant. Said DeVries: "I'm tired of having patients die while trying to cut through red tape." He expects the ethical-review process to be speedier in Kentucky, but there will still be some red tape to get through. The Utah unit was the only one in the country with authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to perform artificial-heart surgery. Now the Humana institute must obtain the same approval...
...lack of money that he did at the largely publicly funded center in Salt Lake City. DeVries had to buttonhole benefactors personally to help cover Clark's hospital expenses of more than $250,000. Humana has pledged to underwrite the surgical costs of up to 100 artificial-heart implants. DeVries' own income will depend on his private practice. As is standard in experimental surgery, his services for the implant operations will be donated...
...worse than the original complaint. Surgery is often reserved for terminal-cancer patients. For such patients, neurosurgeons have devised delicate operations to cut nerves causing local pain, and even to sever nerve tracts in the spinal cord and brain. In some instances, rather than destroy nerve tissue, doctors can implant electrodes into the spinal cord or brain. The patient can then use an external transmitter to stimulate nerves directly when he feels pain...
...much as could be expected, I attempted to implant myself inside Soviet culture. Analyzing it from within, not above. I ignored the tourist attractions, but surveyed the places which are a part of a Soviet citizen's daily lifestyle...
Over the next few months, others will be joining Columpus in the joys of rediscovering hearing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in recent days has approved the implantation of the new device, called Ineraid, in 20 more people. Kolff will donate the first two devices, but the other patients will each have to pay about $10,000. In addition, implant surgery at he Utah medical center will cost approximately $7,000. Doctors say that the implantation is comparable to root-canal surgery, but pain and discomfort disappear after about a week. Thereafter, the barely visible implanted plug requires...