An Australian patient has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with a totally artificial heart ...

Australia will spend $50 million building the world’s first long-term artificial heart, after the original prototype was ...

Pneumatic pumps required plastic tubes coming out of the body ... Not only is [Chris] designing a freaking artificial heart, he also came up with a useful application of ferrofluids.

For more than three weeks, a man walked our streets with a titanium heart in a world-first achievement set to change the ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

The new study, published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, found that eating out of plastic containers, even for a short period of time, is alarmingly dangerous for heart health.

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- China has taken steps to make the expensive artificial heart implantation surgeries more affordable, cutting expenditure to a minimum of 700,000 yuan (about 97,600 U.S ...

Some research has suggested that long-term use of artificial sweeteners may heighten the risk of stroke, heart disease and even early death. lovelyday12 – stock.adobe.com Some research has ...

Artificial hearts are plastic devices used occasionally to keep patients alive whilst waiting for a heart transplant. They can also be used to allow a patient's heart to rest to help it recover.