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 ...

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 hospital. Reading time 3 minutes An Australian man has become a medical ...

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. The ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson's Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart ...