UBCO’s Dr. Hadi Mohammadi has just put his iValve heart valve through its paces—comparing its viability to other valves ...

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

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

BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company developing the world’s first titanium Total Artificial Heart (TAH), today announced that its device has received Breakthrough Device Designation from ...

Key Takeaways Dr. Robert Jarvik created the first artificial heart used in humansHe's died from complications of Parkinson’s ...

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.

In trials in India, Siddarth Nandyala detected and diagnosed more than 40 patients with potential cardiovascular diseases, ...

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 ...

When heart valves are severely malformed or destroyed, they may need to be replaced with a new valve. Replacement valves may be either tissue (biologic) valves, which include animal valves and donated ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a machine learning tool that can help doctors ...

Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.