FREDDIE MARSDEN ; Merseybeat drummer

The Independent - London;  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Mersey-beat musicians, Freddie Marsden was the most down-to-e...Gerry and the Pacemakers and then happily...Gerry and the Pacemakers wanted a similar...the Kop anthem. Freddie Marsden was born in the...Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1963, their...recorded the song. Freddie ...

Freddie Marsden; OBITUARY.(Features)(Obituary)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 14, 2006 ;     351 words ......big beat groups of the era. Nonetheless, the face of Freddie Marsden was clasped in the lockets of many pubescent girls...Donegan to rock and roll. They decided on the name of Pacemakers, pushing them ahead of their great rivals and friends...rivalry was at its keenest in 1963 when Gerry and the ...

Wired world a threat to pacemakers

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 26, 2004 ;     564 words ...Wired world a threat to pacemakers By ANAHAD O'CONNOR New York Times...devices proliferate, people who use pacemakers are finding themselves in a world...considered a danger to those with pacemakers or implanted defibrillators, have...

Pacemakers: some of the risks and complications you are not warned about

The Journal of Perioperative Practice;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......These include the reliability of pacemakers and the use of monopolar diathermy...There are approximately 18,000 new pacemakers implanted each year in the UK (Senthuran et al 2002). Most pacemakers are implanted to correct bradycardia...

Pacemakers: A National Hotline

The Washington Post;  September 12, 1989 ;     103 words ...Pacemakers, like all technology-aided devices, have undergone radical changes in the past few years. The first pacemakers were capable only of speeding up a slow heartbeat and ensuring a steady beat. Today's pacemakers are "rate responsive"-allowing them to respond directly...

Pacemakers found more dependable than defibrillators.(NATION)

The Washington Times;  April 26, 2006 ;     432 words ......substantially higher malfunction rate than pacemakers for patients with abnormal heart rhythms...closer monitoring, especially ICDs. Pacemakers are implantable devices that have been...track malfunction rates for 2.25 million pacemakers and 415,780 ICDs that were implanted...

Freddie the Pacemaker leaves [pounds sterling]330,000 to wife.

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  May 27, 2007 ;     124 words ...FREDDIE MARSDEN, the drummer with hit Sixties pop band Gerry And The Pacemakers, left [pounds sterling]330,000 in his will. Marsden, who died of cancer last December aged 66, bequeathed his entire estate to...

Guidant warns of potential defect in its pacemakers.

Newsday (Melville, NY);  July 19, 2005 ;     425 words ......Kathleen Kerr Jul. 19--About 18,000 pacemakers implanted in heart patients in the U...Indianapolis, Ind., had identified 69 pacemakers that may have failed because of the...malfunctions. Defibrillators perform like pacemakers -- sending electric signals to speed...

Cell phones pose risk to pacemakers; Implanted medical devices misread...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ......otherwise disrupt the functioning of pacemakers that have been implanted in the chests...Americans whose heart rates are regulated by pacemakers. We stopped the tests [in cases where...available in the United States, disrupted pacemakers in 53 percent of the volunteers, he...

Pacemakers tested as apnea treatment; A local company has begun clinical...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......PUBLISHED 10/31/02: This article about pacemakers and sleep apnea should have described...affects about 30 percent of people who use pacemakers because their hearts beat too slowly...employs 2,200 people in Arden Hills making pacemakers and other cardiac products. Until recently...

Blasted are the pacemakers

Scotland on Sunday;  May 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ...EXPLODING pacemakers are injuring crematoria staff and...they are cast into the flames. The pacemakers are going undetected because doctors...correctly to warn morticians about the pacemakers. The blasts are caused by chemical...

Y2K No Threat to Pacemakers: Expert

Xinhua English Newswire;  April 23, 1999 ;     194 words ......will not affect the normal functions of pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in patients...Heilongjiang Province, said today that pacemakers and defibrillators will function normally...when they treat their patients, the pacemakers and defibrillators are not affected...

Guidant Recalls Some Pacemakers Made at Arden Hills, Minn., Unit.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 31, 1999 ;     249 words ......1 -- Guidant Corp. has recalled some pacemakers made by its Arden Hills unit because...early lots of the Discovery and Meridian pacemakers, which have been sold in the United...to closely check the power level of pacemakers implanted in patients. Pacemaker batteries...

PACEMAKERS FOR OTHER PARTS

The Boston Globe;  November 14, 2005 ;     184 words ...Pacemakers like those that fix bum tickers are increasingly being...doctors who have used the device in clinical trials. The pacemakers are implanted in the chest, and wired into specific parts of the brain. Parkinson's patients with implanted pacemakers see significant reductions in tremors and other ...

PATIENTS IN ALERT OVER HEART AIDS; 200 pacemakers may have flaws.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  February 24, 2000 ;     283 words ......health scare over potentially faulty pacemakers. The 193 private and public patients...America's second largest manufacturer of pacemakers, warned of possible defects in its products...Thursday a spokesman said that some of its pacemakers could malfunction because of an electrical...