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- <title>
- Jan. 22, 1990: Business Notes:Medical Implants
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 22, 1990 A Murder In Boston
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 52
- Business Notes
- MEDICAL IMPLANTS
- Recall for a Bum Ticker
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Seattle dentist Barney Clark became a household name in 1982
- as the first patient to receive the Jarvik-7, the world's first
- artificial heart. Clark lived 112 days more, because of the
- polyurethane-and-metal pump. Five patients in all received the
- permanent implant; all died in less than two years. But the
- device helped buy time for 150 patients who relied on an
- implant until a heart transplant was possible. Last week the
- Food and Drug Administration stunned medical researchers by
- recalling the Jarvik heart, which is made by Symbion, a Tempe,
- Ariz., company.
- </p>
- <p> Citing "serious deficiencies" in manufacturing quality,
- training and other areas, the FDA banned further use of the
- $22,000 mechanism. Symbion said last week that it will continue
- to sell the devices outside the U.S. American doctors have
- alternatives, however, since three other firms now make
- heart-pumping aids.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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