Officials say Ascension St. Vincent has been recognized for excellence in infant and maternal health. Officials say the ...
The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part: a levitated rotor held in place by magnets. As the name ...
For more than three weeks, a man walked our streets with a titanium heart in a world-first achievement set to change the ...
In a first, an Australian man has become the first in the world to live with a durable total artificial heart implant -- made ...
In a breakthrough that researchers call an ‘unmitigated clinical success’, an artificial titanium-made heart has helped a man ...
A man in Australia becomes the first to survive 100 days with a titanium artificial heart before receiving a transplant.
The device kept him alive for more than 100 days, allowing him to regain strength and mobility before ultimately receiving a real human heart transplant. For the first time, a person with a totally ...
An Australian man with severe heart failure has become the first person to survive more than 100 days with a total artificial ...
An Australian man with severe heart failure lived for a record 105 days with a metal heart while he waited for a donor heart ...
The implant is designed to sustain patients until a donor heart is available, but BiVACOR’s long-term goal is to enable recipients to live indefinitely with the device without needing a transplant.
Forty-year-old Australian, who suffered from heart failure, agreed to install a titanium implant to wait for a donor heart ...
The BiVACOR total artificial heart, designed by Queensland-born Dr. Daniel Timms, is the world's first implantable rotary ...