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FDA Rejects Artificial Heart
Mad_Rain writes "Those people who fear cyborgs can rest easy. The Food and Drug Administration voted to reject Abiomed's request to sell artificial hearts to people who have suffered heart failure and exhausted their treatment options. The FDA stated that there was too little gain with too many adverse side effects in the limited trial run (17 people underwent the procedure). Although this isn't quite the same product mentioned in previous Slashdot coverage, it does seem like a setback towards replacing failing organs with fully artificial ones."
The Bush administration has also successfully prevented terminally ill people from getting the only medicine that works for some of them: marijuana.
Bush isn't pro-life, he's anti-choice.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
No, I don't like our "Digital" solution to "Analog" life.
Makes me wanna watch PI again. Wtf is wrong with people. Work with organics, not metal and plastic and such.
We will eventually have a symboitic relationship with some cybernetics, but meat carries soul.