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1 week agoThis 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
The device is about the size of a AA battery, and it has the potential to help a baby or infant heart keep beating in the face of failure. It's called the PediaFlow, an implantable artificial heart for the littlest, most vulnerable humans. James Antaki, a biomedical engineer at Cornell University in New York, has been developing this medical device for the last two decades.
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