The Nation - News from July 27, 1987

A nonprofit group is establishing a nationwide registry of people implanted with pacemakers or artificial limbs, joints, heart valves of other products so that the can be notified of product defects. The Medic Alert Foundation International of Turlock, Calif., said its procedures will allow the group to contact people even if they have moved since the devices were implanted. Those with any type of non-biological implant, including drug pumps and intraocular lenses, which are implanted in cataract patients, will be covered in the registry.