James Antaki’s efforts to develop a baby’s heart were close to success when his federal funding was cut off. The grants were ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) is a compact, titanium-constructed device about the size of a fist. Despite its small stature, it packs a powerful punch. It can pump blood at a rate of 12 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR An ...

53 year old Bill Schrader made medical history when he agreed to the artificial heart implant. Bill Schraeder had end stage heart disease and doctors said he would not live *** week longer. The Jarvik ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baby girl is in the hospital waiting on a heart transplant, and Channel 9 learned a specialized medical device is buying her ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- For the first time, surgeons at the University of California San Francisco implanted an artificial heart in a patient and later replaced it with a human heart. Martell Taylor, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first implant of a novel total artificial heart was successfully completed at The Texas Heart Institute. The ...

SALT LAKE CITY — 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 ...

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, ...