In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart The titanium BiVACOR total artificial heart was invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, and it is a rotary blood pump that can mimic the human heart. The device ...

they identified age gaps in nine different organs or organ systems — the arteries, brain, heart, immune system, intestine, kidney, live, lung, and pancreas — as well as for the whole person.

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional perfusion for thoracoabdominal organs (TA-NRP) yielded a similar lung use rate as did direct procurement. The study suggests that ...