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After the pump is implanted in patients awaiting heart transplants, they are expected to be freely mobile because they will not be tethered to a cumbersome external console, as with earlier versions of the device and the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. The device is not a full artificial heart, like the air-driven Jarvik-7, which required patients to be tethered to a large external device, either permanently or until they received heart transplants. Older air-driven versions of the artificial pump have been used for up to eight months in 33 patients in the U.S. without a single stroke or serious infection, said officials of Thermo Cardiosystems Inc., which makes the device

The strain of the AIDS virus that has infected two patients of a Florida dentist has been identified by federal health officials as the same one that killed the dentist in 1990 and infected a third patient of his, according to a published report

Florida health officials are awaiting confirmation from the CDC in Atlanta that two additional patients were infected with the same strain of the AIDS virus that killed their dentist, David Acer, and infected a third patient

Deaths resulting from cancer of the stomach are twice as high for Hispanic Americans as for non-Hispanic whites. Hispanic Americans also suffer from an excess incidence of cancers of the esophagus, breast, pancreas and cervix. So is 'overcoming a well-known traditional resistance to acknowledging homosexuality in Hispanic communities,' researchers said, since homosexual men account for a significant proportion of Hispanic AIDS victims. Dr. Fernando Trevino of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston said more than one-third of Mexican Americans and one-tenth of Puerto Ricans lacked health insurance, as compared with one-fifth of non-Hispanic blacks and one-tenth of non-Hispanic whites

According to several reports in the Jan 9, 1991 Journal of the AMA, Hispanic Americans lack health insurance more often than any other ethnic group in the US. The reports also said that the group suffers disproportionately higher incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease and certain cancers

Last month, George Washington University Medical Center, where many government officials and other prominent people are treated and President Reagan was taken after he was shot in 1981, sponsored a three-day course for doctors on the special problems of the medical care for the prominent. Participants included Colonel Lawrence Mohr Jr., the White House physician in the Bush administration. Mohr, who works with President Bush's primary doctor, Burton Lee, and others urged hospitals to amend disaster plans to deal with prominent patients and medical schools to give lectures on this overlooked area of health care. They said the treatment and hospital care of elected officials can affect public policy in important ways. The common problems include the hazards in breaches of confidentiality, a doctor's desire to treat a prominent person to enhance his status and income, a hospital's use of publicity about its care of such a person to help draw other patients and the chaos that can result in a hospital from admission of a prominent person

With the new device, the damaged organ stays in place. After the pump is implanted in patients awaiting heart transplants, they are expected to be freely mobile because they will not be tethered to a cumbersome external console, as with earlier versions of the device and the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. The device is not a full artificial heart, like the air-driven Jarvik-7, which required patients to be tethered to a large external device, either permanently or until they received heart transplants. Blood will drain naturally from the heart into the pumping chamber of the mechanical device. When the device fills, the blood will be propelled out of the pump into the main artery of the body, the aorta

The FDA has given a Houston hospital approval to begin experimental use of a portable, battery-powered mechanical device to help a failing heart pump blood until a new heart donor can be found

A Houston hospital has won approval to begin testing a portable, battery-powered device to help a failing heart pump blood until a heart donor can be found. After the pump is implanted in patients awaiting heart transplants, they are expected to be freely mobile because they will not be tethered to a cumbersome external console, as with earlier versions of the device and the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. The device is not a full artificial heart, like the air-driven Jarvik-7, which required patients to be tethered to a large external device, either permanently or until they received heart transplants

After the pump is implanted in patients awaiting heart transplants, they are expected to be freely mobile because they will not be tethered to a cumbersome external console, as with earlier versions of the device and the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. The device is not a full artificial heart, like the air-driven Jarvik-7, which required patients to be tethered to a large external device, either permanently or until they received heart transplants. Once in place, blood will naturally drain from the heart into the pumping chamber of the mechanical device. When the device fills, the blood will be propelled out of the pump into the main artery of the body, the aorta