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Baby Barber dies after delayed heart sugery (1987)

Genre
Interview

Interview with father, Philip Barber, on death of his one month-old son David Barber, who underwent surgery to repair his faulty heart, after five postponements due to staff shortages. Reporter not identified.
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Lucille Ball recovers from heart attack (1989)

Genre
News report; Interview

Paul Woodley reports on 77 year-old actress Lucille Ball’s recovery from heart surgery. Dr Robert Cass talks about the procedure, and hospital spokesman Ron Wise talks about her arrival whilst suffering a...
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First successful hole in the heart operation using new technology (1989)

Genre
News report; Interview

Nigel Wrench reporting on the first successful operation to close a hole in the heart using new technology which avoids the need for major open heart surgery under general anaesthetic. Cardiologist Ray...
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Opening of transplant unit Ormond Street (1989)

Genre
Interview

Children’s campaigner and TV celebrity Esther Rantzen on the new heart and lung transplant unit at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital, the cost of which has largely been met by public donation, which...
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Baby has heart surgery in the womb (1990)

Genre
Interview

Simon Bowden interviews Dr Lindsey Allan, senior lecturer in perinatal cardiology at Guy’s Hospital on the procedure on a baby that received heart surgery whilst in its mother’s womb, the decision to...
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Arthur Ashe announces he is HIV positive (1992)

Genre
News report; Press conference

Paul Woodley reports from the United States on the shock announcement that former tennis player Arthur Ashe is HIV positive. It’s believed he contracted the virus from contaminated blood during open heart...
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Surgeon on first mechanical heart patient (1994)

Genre
Interview

The world’s first recipient of a mechanical heart left hospital today. Ex-movie stuntman Arthur Cornhill, 62, had the device fitted in August. Heart surgeon Frank Wells of the Papworth Hospital in...
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Death of artificial heart recipient (1996)

Genre
Interview

A south-west London man believed to be the first in the world to receive a permanent artificial heart has died in hospital. 64 year-old Abel Goodman was given the battery-powered pump last October to...
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