Prof. Rabea Asleh, fourth from left, with staff members who assisted during the first artificial heart transplant in Israel at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on May 25, 2025.

Hadassah doctors performed the country’s first-ever complete artificial heart transplant on a 63-year-old patient, offering new hope for patients with severe heart failure.

Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human — a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about ...

BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company developing the world’s first titanium Total Artificial Heart (TAH), today announced that its device has rece ...

A man in Australia has become one of the first humans to survive without a biological heart—thanks to a revolutionary ...

The first artificial heart. Jarvik was on a team that worked with Dr. Willem Kolff, the director of the university's Division of Artificial Organs, to design a series of mechanical hearts.

Robert Jarvik holds a model of the Jarvik-7, the artificial heart he designed, in Salt Lake City on Dec. 3, 1982. The device was implanted in a human for the first time the previous day.

Key Takeaways Dr. Robert Jarvik created the first artificial heart used in humansHe's died from complications of Parkinson’s disease at age 79While his devices extended lives, they sparked many ...

The Jarvik-7 artificial heart, made of aluminum and plastic, was implanted in 1982 in a retired Des Moines, Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. He lived for 112 days.

FRIDAY, May 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Robert Jarvik, the man behind the world’s first permanent artificial heart used in a human, has died. He was 79, The New York Times reported.

FRIDAY, May 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Robert Jarvik, the man behind the world’s first permanent artificial heart used in a human, has died. He was 79, The New York Times reported. His ...