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.

BiVACOR’s artificial heart was implanted into the first Australian patient at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney late last year. The patient survived without a human heart for three months and ...

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

The recipient underwent a six-hour operation in November, surviving on the artificial heart for over 100 days until a donor heart transplant could occur in early March. BiVACOR CEO Dr Daniel Timms ...

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 ...