Groundbreaking Artificial Heart Implanted At UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School And Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School jointly announce the successful implant of the AbioCor® Total Replacement Heart, the world"s first completely self-contained, fully implantable artificial heart, as well as the first internal artificial organ. The surgery was led by Mark Anderson, MD, associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and chief of the section of cardiac surgery at both the medical school and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and assisted by Juan Plate, MD, assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and an attending surgeon at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is one of only three centers nationwide approved to perform the surgery and the only one in the New York and Philadelphia areas. Dr. Anderson is one of a handful of physicians nationwide trained to perform this procedure. This is the first time the AbioCor has been implanted in a patient since the completion of clinical trials and approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Daily Women's Health Policy Report Summarizes Opinion Pieces On Supreme Court Nomination
about seeking common ground on abortion" in selecting Sotomayor. He cautions that liberals "should not take the bait of the right-wingers by allowing the debate over Sotomayor to be premised on the idea that she is a bold ideological choice," adding that "if conservatives succeed in painting this moderate as a radical, they will skew future arguments over the court" (Dionne, Washington Post, 5/28). ~ George Will, Washington Post: "Americans have argued about the [Supreme Court]"s jurisdiction forever," and they "should not stop, especially now that the president has nominated" Sotomayor, columnist Will writes. "Her ethnicity aside, Sotomayor is a conventional choice," Will writes, adding that "like conventional liberals, she embraces identity politics, including the idea of categorical representation: a person is what his or her race, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference is, and members of a particular category can be represented -- understood, empathized with -- only by persons of the same identity." According to Will, Democrats have "compounded confusion by thinking of the court as a representative institution," and such "personalization of the judicial function subverts the rule of law" (Will, Washington Post, 5/26).~ Gary Bauer, Washington Times: Although some Republican senators might "be tempted to allow Judge Sotomayor to be confirmed without much scrutiny," they "should resist that temptation" because lawmakers "have an obligation to scrutinize the nominee"s judicial record and philosophy," Bauer, president of American Values and chair of the Campaign for Working Families, writes. He continues that "confirmation hearings offer Republicans a rare chance to inform the public about what judges are supposed to do and to make the case for judicial restraint," adding that if Sotomayor "believes unborn children do not deserve constitutional recognition, that ought to be made clear." Bauer writes that Obama"s preference for judges who act on "empathy" demonstrates that he favors "judges that will legislate from the bench," which is "the very definition of judicial activism." According to Bauer, "Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle" (Bauer, Washington Times, 5/27). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.Pages: 1 [2]