The Nation - News from Sept. 2, 1985
Michael Drummond, the world’s youngest artificial heart recipient, sat up in bed and watched sports programs on television at a Tucson hospital. Doctors were confident that he has not developed pneumonia, as they had feared, a hospital spokeswoman said. “He’s alert and responsive, and everybody seems quite pleased with the progress he’s making,” she added.
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