An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from a donor heart. The procedure, ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...

A research team led by Bristol and Cambridge universities has demonstrated that the polymer material used to make a new artificial heart valve is safe following a six-month test in sheep. Currently, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that's held in place by magnets. - BiVACOR An ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79. Jarvik received his medical degree at the ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the history and future of artificial heart technology with Dr Francisco Arabia and Dr Jack Renfrew’s experience with an artificial heart transplant. In May 2025, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a story of ingenuity, genius, and heart… literally. Forty-two years ago, Utah became the site of the first successful total artificial heart transplant, a groundbreaking ...

UCSF Health has performed its first heart transplant for a patient with advanced heart failure who had received an artificial heart a few months earlier. The patient, 37, who lives in the Central ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that traces the development of the world’s first successful artificial mitral heart valve by a young, Oregon-based cardiac surgeon and a retired engineer. Their ...

A 37-year-old patient (center) with his UCSF Health care team. He is UCSF Health’s first patient to undergo a heart transplant after receiving an artificial hearth months before, and is now discharged ...