Robert Koffler Jarvik
1946-
American Physician and Bioengineer
Robert Jarvik is known for his design of an artificial heart. This mechanical device, known as the Jarvik-7, was used with some success d...
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Physician Robert K. Jarvik is designer and biomedical engineer of the first artificial heart used as a permanent implant in a human being. The device, named Jarvik-7, was implanted in Barney Clark on ...
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House Democrats are investigating whether consumers are being misled by advertisements for Lipitor, featuring the world-renowned inventor of an artificial heart.In the ads, which began their heavy ...
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(Adds Pfizer statement, details from lawmakers, Lipitor sales
figures) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House
committee said Monday it was probing Pfizer
Inc advertisements that feature heart speci...
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A 46-year-old man whose body was powered by three separate hearts in the span of a month walked out of the hospital Thursday and said he felt like competing in a triathlon. "I feel like a million d...
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The world's longest surviving artificial heart patient, who was saved by a pioneering heart pump, has died, a friend said Monday. He was 68.In 2000, Peter Houghton's heart was so badly weakened by ...
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Robert Koffler Jarvik
Robert K. Jarvik
Congress questions Jarvik's Lipitor lip service, credentials as part of celebrity-pitch probe
