That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on a human being. Barnard was the son of a rather poor ...

2019 10:25 a.m. Six months before Dr. Christiaan Barnard conducted the world’s first highly-publicized heart transplant in December of 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl performed the world’s first ...

Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a ...

Cape Town - Fifty-six years ago Dr Christiaan Barnard walked through the ... and left having performed the world's first human heart transplant, bringing international acclaim to the medical ...