The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.

As fully robotic surgeries push the boundaries of medical innovation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre ...

The four-hour surgery was conducted by doctors from the 108 Military Central Hospital under the guidance of Professor Jan D.

In a revolutionary medical achievement, an Australian man with end-stage heart failure became the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital after undergoing a total artificial heart implant.

Edward Barnes promised his dad he'd run Boston. "Even the greatest challenges can lead to extraordinary accomplishments," he ...

A traditional open-heart procedure carried significant dangers, with the risk of prolonged surgery pushing his ... the world’s first robotic-assisted artificial heart pump implantation—the ...

The ECMO wasn't supporting Lev'Veon's circulation well enough to keep his kidneys and lungs healthy. He was too fragile to undergo transplant surgery. The thought was that if they could implant a ...

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart. I am a ...

The man in his 40s, who declined to be identified, became the first person to be discharged from hospital with a fully artificial heart implant. During a six-hour surgery in November 2024 at St ...

The patient, who was in his 40s, volunteered to undergo a 6-hour surgery to receive a BiVACOR titanium heart at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney in November. The device uses a magnetically ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The medical technology firm behind the world’s first artificial titanium heart is raising $100 million, which it will use to ...