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 ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that ...

The human heart is a vital organ that pumps blood through the body. You probably don't even think about it, but your heart is always working — it beats about 100,000 times a day, which adds up ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

Scientists have been testing how heat affects our hearts for years. But here's the thing: the most commonly used method might ...

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 ...

Like any other muscle, the heart doesn’t need to work as hard ... “Space is just not very hospitable to the human body,” said Emmanuel Urquieta, vice chair of aerospace medicine and ...