Frazier thought researchers could create a permanent artificial heart only when they gave up on creating a device that could replicate a beating heart. The new device, invented by the Australian ...

Ten years ago, the first high-tech artificial heart was implanted in patients with severe heart disease. But since then, a ...

Schroeder returned to Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had received heart-bypass surgery two years earlier and on November 25th was given an artificial heart. Schroeder ...

Almost 25 years after his father died of heart failure, Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms is trying to revolutionize cardiac care. Timms’ company BiVacor makes an artificial heart that ...

Chief of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Frazier also stands in the vanguard of researchers testing various partial and total artificial hearts ...

SynCardia announced today that it received a second patent expanding the coverage of its fully implantable artificial heart ...

Heard about the guy who lived with an artificial heart for 555 days? It kept him alive while he waited for a heart transplant. Talk about a machine. Your own heart pumps a gallon and a half blood ...

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 ...

Sometimes, surgery proves effective. When heart failure is due to valvular disease, surgical implantation of an artificial heart valve or valve repair may alleviate the problem. Surgery may also ...

or artificial neurons, that can change the strength of their connections with a learning algorithm that Hopfield invented. That algorithm was inspired by work from physics that finds the energy of ...

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 ...