Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 58-year-old man in the United States is the first person in the world to have had his failing heart replaced with a temporary, ...

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually unbreakable heart made of metal. 'Beating' in his chest was a titanium pump ...

Millions of people around the world suffer from heart failure with not nearly enough donors to go around. A new life-saving titanium device called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) recently ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. The device is used as a stopgap for people with heart failure who ...

This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. DONAVON HARBISON, A 35-year-old former collegiate offensive lineman, looked like a hearty, healthy ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. A titanium heart sounds like something made for the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz – but for the first time, on July 9, it was ...

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