The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium, the device uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood in adult patients with ...

The U.S. FDA’s decision to grant breakthrough device designation for Bivacor Inc.’s titanium total artificial heart (TAH) ...

The New York Times reported last week that Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, who led the development of the first artificial heart, ...

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

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.

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

Lev'Veon Jones-White was a healthy, 10-year-old athlete when his heart stopped in August, and he nearly died. Doctors at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital tried CPR for an hour, but his heart would ...

In 1983, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, Barney Clark of Seattle, died in a Salt Lake City hospital. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan called for the development of an ...

In 1982, a man named Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 total artificial heart. Doctors removed his failing biological heart and replaced it with a plastic and metal device to circulate blood to ...

The device is still under trial and has not yet been approved for general use. The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) reportedly has a single moving part, a levitated rotor that’s held in ...