SAN FRANCISCO -- For the first time, surgeons at the University of California San Francisco implanted an artificial heart in a patient and later replaced it with a human heart. Martell Taylor, a ...

Banner Health has performed more than 50 SynCardia Total Artificial Heart implants, establishing itself as a leading center in total artificial heart therapyTUCSON, Ariz., April 30, 2026 (GLOBE ...

Edmonton will be the first of two centres in North America specializing in using an artificial heart designed specifically for the young, a hospital announced Tuesday. Stollery Children's Hospital has ...

An Australian man has made medical history by becoming the first person to survive more than 100 days with a total artificial heart before successfully receiving a donor transplant. The groundbreaking ...

A Tucson company founded by two local doctors and a biomedical engineer expects to significantly increase its production of temporary artificial hearts. SynCardia Systems, founded in 2001, has ...

Grant Feusner, a 64-year-old security systems engineer, started having an odd constellation of health symptoms a year ago. "I had difficulty breathing, a dry mouth, couldn't sleep, and had ...

More than 6 million U.S. adults live with heart failure, and the demand for donor hearts far exceeds the organ’s supply.

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