Study: New device improves heart failure survival

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 08:25

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure.

It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment....

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