For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that ...

The Human Heart: A Perfect Spiral Mystery At the center of this dizzying array lay the sacred secret that had so profoundly occupied Aristotle and Aquinas, Leonardo and Vesalius—the human heart.

Most people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the ...

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, a plumber’s son, started by mimicking a human circulatory system using ...

A human has successfully received a titanium heart. The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced Thursday (25 July) the first-in-human ...

BiVACOR A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human heart transplant. His case marks the longest anyone has lived ...

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s ...

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s ...