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Artificial hearts aim to save lives with LVAD devices doubling as stopgap
A U S News piece details a $100 million program under the National Heart Institute to develop artificial heart technology. Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital Center and others pursue a left ventricle assist device to support damaged hearts, with hopes of eventual fully artificial hearts within a generation. The program has spent over a decade and more than $100 million, with optimistic experts like Dr. Michael G. DeBakey predicting breakthroughs in our lifetime.
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