FRIDAY, May 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Robert Jarvik, the man behind the world’s first permanent artificial heart used ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his ...

BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

How soon will artificial hearts—or even temporary assist devices to do the work of the main pumping chamber—become generally available? That is still problematical. The University of Utah’s ...

Only about 25% of artificial heart patients show ... is now at the forefront of a potential revolution in heart failure ...

and it’s exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition." The BiVOCOR TAH is unlike other artificial hearts for two primary reasons. First, it uses an electro mechanical rotary pump to ...

I don’t get excited anymore. TM: Okay, but something drove you to work on the artificial heart for years. What was it? BF: Durability. If you transplant a heart in a twenty-year-old, there’s a ...

They strategized about how they would get the large device into Lev'Veon's small chest, and how to connect the artificial heart to his vasculature so it would work properly. The first step was ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium ... his father’s death from heart disease, said it was “exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition.” ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...