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

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

This milestone marks a significant advancement in the field of cardiac care, offering new hope for those awaiting heart transplants. The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) is a compact ...

draw blood from that chamber, and pump the blood back up to the aorta. They are left ventricular assist devices. There is only one approved total artificial heart in the United States right now ...

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 ...

Hadassah doctors performed the country’s first-ever complete artificial heart transplant on a 63-year-old patient, offering ...

Artificial Titanium Heart: A 40-year-old man from Australia was given a titanium heart, which kept him alive for more than ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

Just as air travel wasn’t possible until inventors stopped trying to imitate birds in flight, Frazier thought researchers could create a permanent artificial heart only when they gave up on ...

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