The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium, the device uses a magnetically levitated rotor to pump blood in adult patients with ...

The U.S. FDA’s decision to grant breakthrough device designation for Bivacor Inc.’s titanium total artificial heart (TAH) ...

The New York Times reported last week that Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, who led the development of the first artificial heart, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough device designation to BiVACOR’s titanium Total Artificial ...

The company has so far treated patients who were weeks or months away from a transplant, but the device is theoretically ...

BiVacor announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system.

The heart consists of 4 chambers--2 atria (upper chambers) and 2 ventricles (lower chambers). Blood passes through a valve as it leaves each chamber of the heart. The valves prevent the backward flow ...

I don’t want to lie to him, but I also don’t want to be the one who breaks his heart. I’m afraid of looking selfish or unkind. How do I end this relationship without feeling like the villain?

“You dance in your heart.” Wallop will be one of many dancers, actors, authors and advocates at the Global Down syndrome Foundation’s 2025 AcceptAbilty Gala in D.C. Wednesday night.

Objective We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the association between loneliness or social isolation and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. Methods Sixteen ...

When a loved one passes on and your heart aches — there’s a name for that, and apparently, men are more likely to die from it. The technical term for “broken heart syndrome” is takotsubo ...