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Each year more than 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with congestive heart failure--a condition in which a weakened heart can't pump as much blood as the body needs. Drugs like beta-blockers help stabilize many patients in the earliest stages of the disease. But there aren't a lot of options for folks in the later stages. Heart transplants are one solution, but they're in short supply. The new AbioCor artificial heart shows promise, but it's still experimental; last week doctors reported that Robert Tools, the first recipient, had suffered a stroke...
...only for consumers but airlines, shipping and anybody else that uses the ol? internal combustion engine to get themselves or their products around. Cheap oil is an economic stimulus that takes the teeth out of inflation - as last week?s shrinking CPI number attests - and a sharp dip in pump prices is coming in the perfect winter for U.S. consumers and business alike...
Kamen, whose invention credits include a portable drug-infusion pump, a compact dialysis machine and a wheelchair that can climb stairs, has refused to say another word on the subject. When pressed recently by a persistent journalist, he took her by the shoulders and asked, "What part of 'I'm not going to talk about this' don't you understand...
...kids you have to seduce the parents too. Since the world is full of folks over 30 with fond memories of pogoing till they dropped, it's about time someone reinvented this retro favorite. The new Airgo replaces the metal springs of classic pogo sticks with an air pump for a smoother, quieter ride. Of course, kids--and grownups too--may have to land on their fanny a few times before they get the hang...
Doctors sometimes let patients suffering from chronic pain self-administer prescribed doses of intravenous drugs. But those patients have always had to be tethered to an IV and drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According...