He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

FRIDAY, May 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Robert Jarvik, the man behind the world’s first permanent artificial heart used ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his ...

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.

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to design the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human.

BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

Copeland performed the first heart transplant in Arizona in 1979. In 1985 he pioneered the use of an artificial heart to keep a patient alive until a donor heart became available for transplant ...

Heart disease refers to any problem affecting the heart, such as coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Symptoms and treatments depend on the type of heart disease someone has ...