Comments on: The First Pacemaker https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533960 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533960 Yea, I was looking at one of those today. I was disappointed to learn that it does not run Linux.

]]> By: Cthulhu's minion https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533959 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:05:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533959 I know this is from last year but it seems at least tangentially related http://gizmodo.com/366836/scientists-demo-freaky-new-hacking-target-pacemakers

]]> By: CS https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533958 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:37:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533958 This is also where the first (and only) human-grown heart was generated….

Well, if you want to be technical, aren’t all our hearts human-grown? 😉

]]> By: bob koepp https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533957 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:42:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/09/the-first-pacemaker/#comment-533957 Greg – I once worked with a couple engineering types who were with Medtronic in the “old days” you describe in your post. They “spun off” from Medtronic to develop a blood oxygenator that eventually made them all rich. Their big break came when a still very untested device was used in an emergency setting — and to everybody’s surprise and delight, the patient survived. Overnight, and with gushing publicity, their little device company became “valuable”. Anyway, I guess the point is that the medical device industry in Minnesota was a sort of “wild west” with big risks and big rewards.

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