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.

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from a donor heart. The procedure ...

In March, an Australian man lived a record 105 days with Timms’s device, called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, before receiving a heart transplant. “It’s a paradigm shift,” says Timms ...