After ruling out other technologies, Harbison and his Duke team opted to move forward with the artificial heart. “There was definitely a feeling of the fear of the unknown,” Donavon Harbison said, ...

The Duke University Health System was responsible for the second-ever utilization of a technology that acts as a complete artificial heart to extend the lives of patients waiting for a transplant.

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Doctors at Duke University Hospital have played a key role in a remarkable medical breakthrough. Donavon Harbison, an Alamance County resident diagnosed with heart failure ...

Doctors at Duke turned to an experimental device - a titanium artificial heart powered by magnets made by BiVACOR - that would actually replace his heart. Donavon Harbison during his time at Duke ...

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart ...

Before Sepsis Watch, an artificial intelligence tool created at Duke Institute for Health Innovation and implemented ... The problem is that many initial symptoms, such as fever and elevated heart ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

In a feat of surgical skill, Denton Cooley attached the temporary artificial heart device in only 47 minutes ... patients like Jerry Lewis and the Duke of Windsor. Not to be outdone by a foreign ...

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart. I am a ...