Throughout the eighties and nineties, even as he helped with the HeartMate and AbioCor, Frazier argued that engineers should shift from pulsatile pump designs to ones based on the more mechanically straightforward principle of “continuous flow”—the strategy that Bivacor later adopted. Some researchers argued that the circulatory system might benefit from the pulse; there’s evidence that blood-vessel walls expand in response to a quickening beat ...
GLAMOUR, ELEGANCE, MYSTERY, EXUBERANCE are all synonyms of masked balls. Whether thrown by Truman Capote in 1966 and known by society’s...
. . . gilded pumpkins and golden garlands, soirées and masquerades, or quiet cocktails by firelight — whatever you may have planned for this all hallow’s eve, hope it’s filled with a little magic . . .
