In the race to build a better artificial heart, French scientists have turned to technology from satellites and airplanes to create a heart that they say responds better to the human body
FSB: The beat goes onupdated: Tue Nov 28 2006 09:51:00
When we last visited Abiomed, the maker of the first fully implantable artificial heart had been dealt a tough blow by an FDA advisory panel, which recommended that the company's AbioCor not be app...
Abiomed hit a major medical milestone when the FDA approved its artificial heart, but relatively few people are expected to use it and the company isn't likely to see significant sales from its new product at least a couple years.
After three decades of research and a riveting three-year clinical trial that commanded global attention, Abiomed made medical history last week, winning limited federal approval to sell the first fully implantable artificial heart.
FSB: Heart Failureupdated: Thu Sep 01 2005 00:01:00
A food and drug administration advisory panel has dealt a setback to the artificial heart made by Abiomed, the Danvers, Mass., firm that FSB profiled in May. The panel decided that the device's ris...
Shortly after 7 a.m. Dr. Laman Gray stepped into the operating room at Jewish Hospital in Louisville to begin the most important procedure of his 30-year career as a cardiac surgeon. Outside, the c...
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