Mr. Naki was a medical worker with famously skilled hands who assisted Dr. Christiaan Barnard in the world's first heart transplants beginning in 1967. Dr. Barnard would install the heart, but only ...

"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first ...

While names like Alfred Blalock and Christiaan Barnard dominate medical history, the Black pioneers who made their work ...

He was 78.Barnard suffered a fatal asthma attack Sunday morning after going for a swim at a resort in Paphos on the southwest coast of Cyprus, where he had been vacationing, according to a statement ...

Criticism and caution about heart transplants have been welling up for weeks. So, as Capetown Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard began his second U.S. tour, he tackled the issue headon. Barnard chose the ...

Rouen, France – Robocath, a company that designs, develops and commercializes cardiovascular robotic systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, today announces it has successfully completed six ...

FRANKFURT — Heart-transplant surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who readily admits he became a doctor "to make money," Thursday repeated his statement that he is contented in South Africa and has "no ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) _ Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world’s first heart transplant and became an international celebrity, died Sunday in a resort on the southwest coast of Cyprus. He was ...