After ruling out other technologies, Harbison and his Duke team opted to move forward with the artificial heart. “There was definitely a feeling of the fear of the unknown,” Donavon Harbison said, ...

The Duke University Health System was responsible for the second-ever utilization of a technology that acts as a complete artificial heart to extend the lives of patients waiting for a transplant.

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Doctors at Duke University Hospital have played a key role in a remarkable medical breakthrough. Donavon Harbison, an Alamance County resident diagnosed with heart failure ...

Doctors at Duke turned to an experimental device - a titanium artificial heart powered by magnets made by BiVACOR - that would actually replace his heart. Donavon Harbison during his time at Duke ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough device designation to BiVACOR’s titanium Total Artificial ...

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

Before Sepsis Watch, an artificial intelligence tool created at Duke Institute for Health Innovation and implemented ... The problem is that many initial symptoms, such as fever and elevated 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 ...