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.

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 ...

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

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

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

In a feat of surgical skill, Denton Cooley attached the temporary artificial heart device in only 47 minutes ... patients like Jerry Lewis and the Duke of Windsor. Not to be outdone by a foreign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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