Volume 6 Issue 4 October 2010

New Tools for Helping Heart Patients By Gina Kolata New York Times On a recent Monday, Helen Elzo got a call from her doctor’s office. A device implanted in her heart was not functioning. She needed to go to the hospital and have it replaced. She was aghast — her heart is damaged and, at any time, can start quivering instead of beating. If the device, a defibrillator, was unable to shock her heart back to normal, her life was in danger.

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— Dr. Dean Jamison
Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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