An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

Back in 1982, Barney Clark became the first person to live without a human heartbeat when he had the Jarvik 7 artificial heart implanted in his chest. Since then, thousands of others have joined ...

During the Barney Clark era, the field was so young (the U barely had a heart surgery program), that transformative leaps such as implanting the first artificial heart could be made. Today, research ...

Williams’ best shot at survival was to have his heart almost completely removed and replaced with a total artificial heart — a synthetic machine that stands in for a living, beating organ.

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial ...

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 ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

A 75-year-old Frenchman has just been given the gift of life as a team of surgeons have successfully completed the transplant of a revolutionary artificial heart. The patient, so far unnamed ...

SUITA, Osaka -- A miniature artificial heart made of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, expected to be one of the main exhibits at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, was unveiled to the media ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR ...