You gotta have heart. And indeed a healthy heart was once considered essential to human life. But today, medical technology has come so far in developing assistive devices designed to take over essential functions of faltering hearts that patients with diseased organs are living longer and better than ever before.
Heart disease remains a primary cause of death in Canada, the United States and much of the rest of the world. But since the mid-1980s, artificial-heart technology has been advancing by quantum leaps, and today hundreds of patients on the ever-lengthening waiting lists for heart transplants are going home to near-normal lives while they wait. These patients have a pump ...
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