Most people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the ...

As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from ...

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s ...

BiVACOR A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human heart transplant. His case marks the longest anyone has lived ...

In July 2024, a 57-year-old man with end-stage heart failure received the BiVACOR TAH at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas in the United States. This was the first human ...

Just eight days later, that's exactly what happened: the artificial heart was replaced with a human heart and the patient was discharged. Since then, four more patients in the US have used the ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative gene-therapy strategy ...

The SANBS urges all South Africans to show their commitment to human rights by donating blood. Photo: Pranidchakan Boonrom/ www.pexels.com. For illustrative purposes. As the country commemorates ...

The path to better heart health might just run through your wrist. Scientists at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have developed a new way to assess cardiovascular fitness ...

At first she was tempted to explore a walk-through model of the human heart, but instead she went to the Hall of North America where an attendant was explaining the difference between poisonous ...