James Sorenson, Medical Device Pioneer, Is Dead at 86
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Mr. Sorenson overcame a learning disability and built a fortune in innovative medical devices and real estate.
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A revolutionary electronic device the size of a rice grain, which is implanted under a person&#39;s skin and holds the key to their medical records, will soon be saving lives around the world.
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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research
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By James Thorner, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 4--Technology companies used to enjoy rich, long lives: Consider  graybeards like IBM and General Electric.   No longer.   Peter Marcotullio, an SRI International executive visiting St.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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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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BELGRADE, Maine - Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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New Albany -- An Indiana man who lived with an artificial heart for 147 days has died, the heart manufacturer said Monday. Abiomed Inc.
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Abiomed Inc. on Thursday said the failure of the artificial heart implanted in a patient who died last month was caused by early wear-out of a bearing.
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SAN FRANCISCO Computer scientist Bob Evans, who helped popularize personal computing, has died. He was 77. His son Doug said Evans died Thursday of heart failure at his home in the San Francisco of Hillsborough.
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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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Dr. Francis Crick, a renowned radicular Biologist, died of cancer on July 29, 2004. Prof. D. Wilson Devaprasad, an ardent reader of SOM had the opportunity of listening to his talk on &#39;DNA Helix&#39; at Hyderabad in 1981.
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Only two Canadians have ever won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The first was Sir Frederick Banting, who shared the 1923 award for the discovery of insulin with a Scottish doctor working in Toronto.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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A founding father of molecular biology and a surgeon who developed the standard operation for removing cataracts are among the winners of this year's Lasker awards for medical research.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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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.