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Refurbished heart pacemakers work like new

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A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices.

In a clinical trial of nearly 300 people, patients who received refurbished devices fared just as well as those who received new ones.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved pacemaker as single use devices.

The hope is to scale up the team’s operation and “deliver pacemaker to patients in low- and middle-income countries”.

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