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...chest, fills in for the heart's pumping chambers, shunting blood throughout the body. But because it remains connected to a power console outside the chest, the device is only a temporary fix, intended to buy time for the sickest patients while they wait for a heart transplant. Still, it has proved effective. Patients put on CardioWest were more than twice as likely to survive for a year, increasing their chance of finding a suitable donor heart. Doctors are testing a fully implantable artificial heart called the AbioCor, but it has not yet been approved...
...Pixies never made sense. A bald, fat genius, a transplant from the Philippines, a chain-smoking matron and a stage magician have no right to write songs about Puerto Rico, the Old Testament and UFOs that are actually good, much less classics. They were far too improbable to exist for any length of time. The concert Thursday was a fair historical reconstruction of that period, and it would be too much to hope for the real thing...
...team also observed that some retinal cells that had appeared to be dying before the procedure became functional after the transplant. Young speculated that this finding might point to broader regenerative capacity of stem cells...
This second release from orchestral octet Hem was recorded in New York City and Slovakia—very far from the southern home of the “countrypolitan” sound that they try to channel. Judging from this bloodless collection of songs, the northward sonic transplant did not take...
...Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital, will petition their in-house ethics review board for the go-ahead on their research. Dr. George Q. Daley and Dr. Leonard I. Zon want to examine blood diseases, with a long-term focus on developing healthy therapeutic cells to transplant into sick patients after rehabilitation...