SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: November 5, 2007
EXCERPT: "A small, implantable device that helps the heart pump blood offers the promise of keeping alive more women with advanced heart failure until a donor heart is available for transplant, researchers said on Sunday. .. Researchers said Thoratec Corp's HeartMate II device performed as well in women as in men." more
[The findings were presented at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando ahead of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of Thoratec's application seeking approval of the device. Thoratec funded the study.]

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