13th recipient of artificial heart dies
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The 13th patient to receive the world&#39;s first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc.
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âWe were saddened to hear of the death of Christopher Reeve. He has been such an effective advocate of stem cell research, as well as being an extremely courageous individual who never lost hope that the
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Researchers believe heart devices could prevent some unexpected epilepsy deaths. One man describes how he lost his daughter and grandson to epilepsy.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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Seventy-nine percent of patients who received the Tucson-developed CardioWest Total Artificial Heart lived long enough to receive a heart transplant, according to a study in Thursday&#39;s New England Journal of Medicine.
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About 100 family and friends have remembered actor Christopher Reeve at a private ceremony at his New York home. Reeve, who became paralysed after a riding accident in 1995, died of heart failure in hospital in New York on Sunday, at the age of 52.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Marcus is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve,  who became a tireless advocate for spinal cord research after a  horseback riding accident left him paralyzed nine years ago,  has died of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday. He was  52.
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An 18-month-old girl who has had six heart attacks since she was born is put top of the European transplant list.
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BEDFORD, NY - Christopher Reeve, the star of the Superman movies whose nearly fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a  pioneer in surgery to implant artificial heart pumps in  children, died of an apparent suicide over the weekend at the  age of 45, hospital officials said Monday.
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Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a heart surgeon whose work was the focus of a four-part television series and who successfully implanted a life-saving miniature heart pump in a child, was found dead Sunday of a suicide. He was 45.
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"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in a riding accident nine years ago, died of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it has approved the first temporary artificial heart for use in patients at risk of dying within 30 days as they await a heart transplant.    The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart, manufactured by SynCardia Systems of Tucson, Ariz., takes over for the patient's failing heart, restoring normal blood pressure and shoring up such vital organs as the kidney and liver...
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - Christopher Reeve, the chiseled, strapping "Superman" of celluloid who became another kind of hero as a force for spinal cord research after a devastating horse-riding accident, has died at 52...
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the  widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern  bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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Three and a half months after Travis Marcusâ rapidly failing heart brought him near death at Arkansas Childrenâs Hospital, the 14-year-old walked out the hospitalâs front door Thursday with his new donor heart.