The Australian man was the sixth person to to receive the device called BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH), but the first ...

A man has lived for more than 100 days with an artificial maglev heart working inside his chest. In a landmark moment, he was ...

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH (total artificial heart), which just had the first prototype implanted in a human patient. Unlike the typical membrane-based pumps, the BiVACOR ...

The man had undergone a procedure that lasted for six hours to have the artificial heart implanted. Read more at straitstimes ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

An Australian man with severe heart failure received a metal heart and was well enough to be discharged from the hospital ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

The device, to be tested in more people, could be used as a temporary measure for those waiting for a donor organ.

The company Bivacor announced last week that the Australian clinical trial patient used its total artificial heart for a ...