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A photo of a surgeon handling the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart

In a potentially major medical moment, a man lived with a titanium heart for 100 days while awaiting a donor transplant.

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Fingers Crossed For Kennedy

Senator Edward Kennedy is at Duke University Medical Center today for a surgery to remove a malignant glioma-the brain tumor that caused his May 17 seizure. He might remain awake for the surgery, so doctors can remove as much of the tumor as possible while checking to make sure that critical functions..