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

Millions of people around the world suffer from heart failure with not nearly enough donors to go around. A new life-saving titanium device called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH ...

“The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart,” he said in the statement. “Their bravery will pave the way ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from the hospital.

An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

The device in the news—the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart—was developed by a US-Australian collaboration. This device is innovative, mainly because it is the first continuous-flow device ...

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 ...

The transplant was part of the hospital's Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, which designs and tests new devices like pumps as well as the BiVACOR’s Total Artificial Heart (TAH) — which this ...

Patients and families need to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the ...