It looks like it’s straight out of a comic book, but BiVACOR is a real, functioning titanium heart. The metal device is ultimately intended as a replacement for human donor organs, but was first ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — 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.

In a monumental leap forward for medical science, a 58-year-old man from the United States became the first recipient of a titanium-based artificial heart. This breakthrough surgery was performed at ...

Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix has become the third U.S. hospital to perform a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart implantation as part of the FDA’s early feasibility study. The device is made of ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. A titanium heart sounds like something made for the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz – but for the first time, on July 9, it was ...

A human has successfully received a titanium heart. The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced Thursday (25 July) the first-in-human implantation ...

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium, the device uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood in adult patients with ...

There's new hope for the thousands of people waiting for a heart transplant. Usually, those patients are too sick to go home and forced to spend months in an ICU, just waiting for the call. Now, a new ...

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually unbreakable heart made of metal. 'Beating' in his chest was a titanium pump ...

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 who ...