In a front-page story, the
Boston Globe 
(6/22, A1, Kowalczyk) reports, "A retired Massachusetts high school
teacher and track coach is being kept alive with an artificial heart
while awaiting a transplant at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the first
use of the technology in New England to replace a patient's failing
heart." While "total artificial hearts have been widely used elsewhere
as a 'bridge to transplant'...Boston surgeons have not embraced the
devices." The Globe points out that "one
drawback of the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart that" the man "received
is that patients are typically connected to a bulky 'pneumatic
driver,' which resembles a large copier on wheels." The
CBS News (6/22, Jaslow) "HealthPop" blog also covers the story.
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