Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expansion of BiVACOR’s early feasibility study evaluating its titanium total artificial heart (TAH) to additional participants.

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

the BiVACOR heart and those like it could be the first practical permanent total artificial hearts. There’s clearly more to do here; some basic questions, like does the human body have a ...

A patient in Australia has lived for more than 100 days with a BiVACOR titanium device, first dreamt up by Daniel Timms and ...

A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR ...

An Australian man has become the first person to survive more than 100 days with a total artificial heart implant in a historic medical feat. The groundbreaking BiVACOR device, which uses magnetic ...

The first durable artificial heart implant was hailed as a success after the recipient became the world's first person to be discharged from hospital after surgery to implant the high-tech device ...

An Australian man in his 40s with severe heart failure was implanted with a Bivacor Inc. total artificial heart (TAH) and has been discharged from the hospital. He remained at home with the artificial ...

A new chapter is opening in the field of heart transplantation. A 40-year-old man from New South Wales has become the first patient in the world to leave the hospital with a BiVACOR artificial heart ...

The patient in his forties received a temporary, but lifesaving, total artificial heart ... game changer is a titanium heart created by the Australian company BiVACOR. It's designed to keep ...