THE concept is deceptively simple – use a fibre jacket to support a damaged heart – but it may give thousands of ailing organs a second chance.
That’s the idea behind the Acorn CorCap, an experimental device that doctors hope will slow, or even reverse, the ravages of progressive heart failure.
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