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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating after doctors installed a mechanical heart pump that supplements the amount of blood being pumped through the body. The device is being given to a growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die without it.

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Newsmaker: New heart pump brings hope for sufferers of chronic heart failure

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