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French Scientists Develop Artificial Heart that Beats Much Like the Real Thing

A team of French researchers has developed an artificial heart that resembles and beats almost exactly like the real thing. The news is providing renewed hope to hundreds of thousands of patients who suffer from heart failure and for whom standard drug therapy, ventricular assistance or a heart transplant have failed or aren't possible. The team, led by Dr Alain Carpentier, a renowned French heart surgeon, presented a prototype of the artificial heart during a press conference Monday in... Full Story
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