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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

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 BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart kept him alive for a record 105 days, until a donated organ was available, and has been heralded as a “revolutionary milestone in Australian medical history”.

The Bivacor artificial heart, invented by Brisbane-born Daniel Timms, was implanted in the first Australian patient last November, with the man surviving longer than anyone elsewith the titanium ...