Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79. Jarvik received his medical degree at the ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from the hospital. Reading time 3 minutes An Australian man has become a medical ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion recount how an artificial heart helped save a human life With the penny going away, what ...

All SynCardia sales and clinical staff have completed the required training in advance of the rollout. SynCardia will work directly with hospital and clinical teams to provide training materials, ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the history and future of artificial heart technology with Dr Francisco Arabia and Dr Jack Renfrew’s experience with an artificial heart transplant. In May 2025, ...

Surgeons have successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart in the chest of a human patient that is powered by the same ‘maglev’ technology used in the creation of high-speed trains. Its ...

PHOENIX — Banner Health’s University Medical Center Phoenix made history in August, being the third hospital in the world to successfully implant the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart in a human, ...

Doctors at St. Luke’s Medical Center celebrated a new type of artificial heart on Thursday, which was implanted into a patient for the first time earlier this month. The new device, named BiVACOR, is ...

Outside of the brain, the heart is probably the organ that you miss the most when it ceases to function correctly. Unfortunately, as we cannot grow custom replacement hearts yet, we have to keep heart ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure. A research team ...

French scientists build an artificial heart that beats much like the real thing. PARIS, Oct. 29, 2008 — -- A team of French researchers has developed an artificial heart that resembles and beats ...

Working with the European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS) — best known as the maker of the Airbus jet — French researchers have developed a pioneering new artificial heart. Dr. Alain Carpentier, ...