On Monday, doctors at the clinic fitted Mr. Ford with an implantable cardiac pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.
He was a brilliant physician and heart surgeon who was a seminal figure in the development of the cardiac pacemaker.
E1 OBITUARIES B7 Dr. Howard A. Frank A surgeon and clinical professor at Harvard Medical School who helped develop the cardiac pacemaker, he was 89.
Later, Mr. Suharto's lawyer said that his condition had stabilized and that a cardiac pacemaker would be installed on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
The whole drug-delivery system finishes up as an implantable device no bigger than a cardiac pacemaker.
Doctors at veterans' hospitals have done pioneering research on spinal cord injuries and schizophrenia, helped develop the implantable cardiac pacemaker and the nicotine patch, and performed some of the first successful liver transplants.
In a Tennessee case involving a cardiac pacemaker, the Bush administration told a state trial court, "It is inappropriate for a jury to second-guess F.D.A.'s scientific judgment on a matter that is within F.D.A.'s particular expertise".
Guidant's cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator businesses, which had been Boston Scientific's main reason for the takeover, have been struggling to recover from a decline in sales after reports of deadly defects in a small number of units.
Just before my visit, Jesús had made news in the Mexican press: he'd been in a government building in Culiacán when a woman came in seeking help for her young son, who needed a cardiac pacemaker.
And what's a cardiac pacemaker if not an implanted computer?
