REPEATED DEFECT IN HEART DEVICES EXPOSES A HISTORY OF PROBLEMS

It was March in the high desert West but the day felt more like early summer — warm, bright and breezy — as the young couple rode out on rented mountain bikes along a trail that ran through the majestic red rock canyons outside Moab, Utah. The two college students met only a few months earlier, in late 2004. But the couple, Jessica Lemieux and Joshua Oukrop, had talked in recent days about their lives together and marriage. "I told him he had met his match," Ms. Lemieux recalled.
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