The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

An Australian man with severe heart failure received a metal heart and was well enough to be discharged from the hospital ...

A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human ...

The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received a device called BiVACOR, at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney last ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

Although designed as a stop-gap device for would-be heart donor recipients, the titanium heart could be a future permanent heart replacement for those too old or sick to undergo a transplant. Being a ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. The device is used as a stopgap for people with heart failure ...

The man had undergone a procedure that lasted for six hours to have the artificial heart implanted. Read more at straitstimes ...

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

In the United States, there are around 3,500 donor hearts made available every year for more than 4,400 people who join the ...