Little-Used Device Gives Life to Boy With Failing Heart

Blake Busmire, 8, passes the time at Mount Sinai in New York City with his Playstation games. Blake Busmire, 8, passes the time at Mount Sinai in New York City with his Playstation games. Ask Blake Busmire about the Yankees, PlayStation, superheroes and comic books, and he’ll happily tell you they’re his favorites. The 8-year old gives you that same ear-to-ear grin when you ask about the new heart he’s waiting for. It’s been more than two months since Blake -- bloated, battered and barely conscious -- was brought into New York City’s Mount Sinai Medical Center with heart failure. He then spent about a month in bed, sedated and immobile. But now, thanks to an experimental device called the Berlin Heart, which the Food and Drug Administration has not approved for use in the United States, Blake is the active young boy he was... [read full story]