Word: implants
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Twelve years in development at a cost of $4 million, AID (for Automatic Implantable Defibrillator) is largely a triumph for Cardiologist Michel Mirowski, 55, who migrated from Israel with the aim of perfecting it against almost unanimous medical opposition. Experts doubted that such miniaturized equipment could work inside the body. The implant's electronic heart and soul is its microcircuitry. Designed by Dr. M.S. Heilman and Engineer Alois Langer at Medrad/Intec Systems, a small medical technology firm in Pittsburgh, the little package (total weight: 250 grams, or 9 oz.) is placed just under the skin of the abdomen...
Controversy is sure to continue; several institutes in other states are considering opening similar clinics. Meanwhile the Virginia doctors hope to do their first implant in March...