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...recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, which kept him alive for 151 days; in Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of July. His death, from internal bleeding and organ failure, was not related to the mechanical heart. DIED. GEORGE HARRISON, 58, the Beatles' quiet and wry lead guitarist, of cancer; in Los Angeles. A proponent of Eastern culture, the youngest Beatle wrote some of the group's most lyrical songs (Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps...
...audience eruption, Double Trouble positively tears into “Scuttle Buttin,” soaring with impossible runs over Layton’s fast and loose percussion. While maturity had refined his playing, Vaughan clearly hadn’t lost his competitive fire. Grounded by Reese Waynans on organ in addition to Layton and Shannon, Vaughan returns to “Pride and Joy” for the symmetry of it all, this time transcending his original by infusing voice and playing with a thick, raw edge. Later, Double Trouble reprises “Texas Flood...
Moore, a pioneer in the field of surgery who oversaw the first successful human organ transplant, died last Saturday of heart failure...
Moore led the way in the development of organ transplantation and heart surgery methods, heading the team that performed the first organ transplant in 1954, transferring a kidney between identical twins...
That's why it's such good news to hear that another type of mechanical pump, called a left ventricular assist device, may be a viable alternative. Instead of replacing the heart entirely, the lvad attaches to the organ's left main chamber, boosting its output. The pump is twice as likely as drugs to keep patients alive after one year, according to a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting...