Medical company moving HQ to Frisco: Greatbatch plans to move headquarters to city - Frisco Enterprise
24 May 2012, 1:42 pm
The company, currently headquartered in Clarence, New York, was founded in 1970 by Wilson Greatbatch, the co-inventor of the first successfully implanted pacemaker. In a statement, Thomas Hook, president and CEO of Greatbatch, cited the North ...

U.S. will not charge passenger who caused US Airways scare - Reuters UK
24 May 2012, 4:17 am
(Reuters) - The passenger who said she had a surgically-implanted device in her body and caused a US Airways jetliner to divert to Maine will not face criminal charges in the security scare, prosecutors said on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Thomas ...

It’s official: Al-Qaida hates puppies - Daily Caller
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
U.S. officials say that al-Asiri’s latest schemes involve bombs surgically implanted in terrorists and bombs hidden in pets that are carried onto aircraft, ABC News reports. Al-Asiri’s designs also include bombs in cameras and external hard ...

Tiny implanted coil improves lung function in patients with severe emphysema - medicalxpress.com
23 May 2012, 8:43 am
A tiny, resilient metal wire designed to gather and compress diseased lung tissue may offer relief to patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema, a subtype of the disease that involves specific, usually isolated areas of the lungs, according ...

Pictured: The moment airline passengers wrestled crazed woman to the floor after she claimed to have a BOMB surgically implanted inside her - Daily Mail
22 May 2012, 6:31 pm
A crazed woman had to be restrained by fellow air passengers after she started raging about having an explosive device implanted within her. The terrifying incident forced the pilot of U.S. Airways flight 787, traveling from Paris to Charlotte, North ...

Diverted US Airways flight lands in Charlotte; passenger claimed to have surgically implanted device - YAHOO!
22 May 2012, 12:40 pm
A flight from Paris bound for Charlotte, N.C., was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a passenger claimed to have a device surgically implanted inside her, sparking security concerns. The woman, a French citizen whose name has not been released, was ...

Plane diverted after crazed woman claims to have BOMB surgically implanted in her - Daily Mail
22 May 2012, 12:33 pm
A 'disruptive' woman was arrested after her behaviour forced a plane to emergency land, the Transport Security Administration said. The U.S. Airways flight 787 was traveling from Paris, France to Charlotte, North Carolina, but had to be diverted when the ...

Plane makes emergency landing after passenger claims to have 'surgically implanted device' - FOX News
22 May 2012, 11:43 am
BANGOR, Maine – A US Airways jet flying from Paris to North Carolina was diverted after a French woman handed a flight attendant a note stating she had a surgically-implanted device, officials said. The Charlotte-bound jet landed in Maine ...

World's smallest artificial heart implanted in baby - ABC Online
21 May 2012, 3:47 pm
Italian doctors have implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby, with the child going on to receive a permanent heart donation, the hospital that performed the operation said. "In March, the smallest artificial heart in the world ...

First Blind Patients in the UK implanted with Retina Implant AG’s Breakthrough Technology - Business Wire
3 May 2012, 10:25 am
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retina Implant AG, the leading developer of subretinal implants for patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), today announced that the first UK patients participating in the Company’s multi-centre trial have been ...