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- Artificial Heart: Last Chance Option. // Prevention;Jan2002, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p108
Focuses on Robert Tools, who volunteered to become the world's first human recipient of the battery-powered, titanium-and-plastic AbioCor artificial heart.
- Robert Tools Makes Medical History As First To Receive A Self-Contained Artificial Heart. // Jet;9/10/2001, Vol. 100 Issue 13, p22
Reports on Robert Tools of Franklin, Kentucky, who is the first person to receive a self-contained artificial heart.
- Robert Tools, Recipient Of Artificial Heart, Dies. // Jet;12/17/2001, Vol. 101 Issue 1, p17
Reports that Robert Tools, who received the first fully self-contained artificial heart, died of internal bleeding and organ failure after living with the device for 151 days, but that the AbioCor heart was not the cause of his death.
- the AbioCor artificial heart. Hamilton, Anita // Time International (South Pacific Edition);11/19/2001, Issue 46, p60
Looks at the invention of the AbioCor artificial heart. View that inventions should be gauged by how they change people's lives; Artificial heart, manufactured by AbioMed, which was given to Robert Tools; How the heart was named the invention of the year, because it saved a life and changed...
- Passages. Abel, Olivia // People;12/17/2001, Vol. 56 Issue 25, p81
Presents various celebrity-related news as of December 17, 2001, including the death of Robert Tools, the world's first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart.
- the AbioCor artificial heart. Hamilton, Anita // Time;11/19/2001, Vol. 158 Issue 22, p74
Looks at the invention of the AbioCor artificial heart. View that inventions should be gauged by how they change people's lives; Artificial heart, manufactured by AbioMed, which was given to Robert Tools; How the heart was named the invention of the year, because it saved a life and changed...
- HE TAKES A LICKING, KEEPS ON TICKING. Martens, Ellin // Time International (South Pacific Edition);9/3/2001, Issue 35, p79
Focuses on Robert Tools, the first recipient of the Abiocor, a fully contained mechanical heart. Mention of Abiomed, the company that designed the device; Where the surgery was performed in the United States; Tools' progress since the surgery.
- HE TAKES A LICKING BUT KEEPS ON WHIRRING. Martens, Ellin // Time;9/3/2001, Vol. 158 Issue 9, p97
Focuses on Robert Tools, the first recipient of the Abiocor, a fully contained mechanical heart. Mention of Abiomed, the company that designed the device; Where the surgery was performed in the United States; Tools' progress since the surgery.
- For These Patients, Extra Lives. Underwood, Anne // Newsweek;11/26/2001, Vol. 138 Issue 22, p8
Reports on the health of recipients of AbioCor artificial hearts, in light of the suffering of a stroke by recipient Robert Tools. View of wife Carol Tools concerning the stroke; Views of surgeon Dr. Laman Gray Jr.; Health of other patients.
