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Article: New artificial heart given approval by FDA.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2006
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for as many as 4,000 people.
The decision reverses an FDA advisory panel's recommendation last year that the device was not yet ready for widespread use after many of its first 14 test patients suffered strokes. No ...