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FDA Rejects Artificial Heart

Posted by timothy on from the stagnation-safer-than-progress dept.

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."

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  1. I wonder if some side effects could be by ZombieChiefExecutive · · Score: 5, Funny

    psychological. Imagine walking around knowing you had no heart? Spooky.

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    James Buchanan
    Zombie Chief Executive/15th President of the USA
    1. Re:I wonder if some side effects could be by Ensign+Zatrole · · Score: 3, Funny

      Brings a new meaning to calling somebody a heartless bastard, doesn't it?

    2. Re:I wonder if some side effects could be by CardiganKiller · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you're so freaked out about not having a heart, the inhabitants of Munchkin Land will have some solid advice for you.

    3. Re:I wonder if some side effects could be by g0at · · Score: 3, Funny

      For what it's worth, I participated in the first calf trial of this device at Louisville.

      You are a bovine?

      -b

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    4. Re:I wonder if some side effects could be by bleaknik · · Score: 2, Funny

      No Heartless Bastard is going to trump my steel plate!

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      n. 1. The sensation that you've read this very article before.
    5. Re:I wonder if some side effects could be by cpt+kangarooski · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who says you'd have no heart? Just keep it in a jar someplace, problem solved.

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      -- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
  2. FDR Rejects Artificial Heart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Still alive after all these years? I knew it!

  3. no heart by ASLayerAODsk · · Score: 2, Funny

    so does that mean, 'no heart, no soul'?

  4. Ah! by Bad+Vegan · · Score: 2, Funny

    That explains that whole General Grevious thing.

    I was wondering why he was built like a toaster except for the gizzards.

    - This was a manually created sig. Take THAT robot overlords. -

  5. no brain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All future soldiers will have their brains replaced with a computer... after all, no brain, no pain...

  6. Just don't... by SenorAmor · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... piss off a Naussican, and you have nothing to worry about.