ARTIFICIAL HEART
“Development In 30 Years” (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) NEW YORK. A well-known American surgeon says it will take another 30 years to develop an artificial heart for human beings at the present rate of progress. The development time could be cut to five years, however, if the United States spent as much money on the problem as it did on putting men on the moon, said Dr, Adrian Kantrowitz, a surgeon at Maimonides Hospital in New York City. In spite of headline-making advances in recent years, Dr. Kantrowitz said, science is nowhere near solving the immense problems that must be solved ■ before a working human artificial heart is ready.
“No power source is near capable of being put inside a human being or animal permanently,” Dr. Kantrowitz said. Heat build-up from an internal motor constitutes only one of the major problems.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 4
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