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Wayne State University and Oakwood partner in new device to combat congestive heart failure
(April 9, 2008)

As heard on News/Talk 760 WJR, Detroit and the "Champions of Care Show" sponsored by Oakwood Medical Center

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A Net Around the Heart (April 8, 2008)

Local surgeons have implanted a new device in a Hamtramck man to help his heart work more efficiently.

Calgary Surgeons Perform Historic Heart Procedure
(January 19, 2008)

Doctors in Calgary have implanted a sheath around a woman's heart in an attempt to stop it from dangerously enlarging, the first such experimental operation performed in Canada.

'Sock' Could Help Save Woman's Life. Experimental Surgery Puts Net Around Heart (November 25, 2007)

A nurse for more than 25 years, Cynthia Henry talks about her upcoming experimental heart surgery with an almost-eerie detachment.

Hugging Hearts (August 6, 2007)

More than 300,000 people die every year from Cardiomyopathy, which is a weakening of the heart muscle that causes it to enlarge and fail. Medication does not always stop the disease, leaving patients with very few options. But researchers are now testing a new device that gives the heart a "squeeze" and gives patients a second chance.

Sometimes A Heart May Need To Be Hugged (July 21, 2007)

FOX 4's Meryl Lin McKean shows us how a device being tested in Kansas City is giving some people the squeeze they need.

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