An Australian man lived with a titanium artificial heart for more than 100 days before receiving a real heart.

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...

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

After six days in the hospital, Punturi was sent home with medicine, but on Sept. 8 as he was watching the Steelers beat the ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

A man who suffered from heart failure in Australia has received an artificial heart called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart ...

The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, volunteered to have a titanium heart inserted at St. Vincent’s Hospital ... at regular intervals—just like a real human heart would.

The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s Hospital ... people cope with this device in the real world, says Joseph Rogers, a heart-failure cardiologist and president ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s ...

"We're working towards making it as good as the (real) transplant," he said. "What we have is the first step towards doing that." Labelled an unmitigated success, Australia's first recipient of the ...

Colleen Sheridan and her son Connor have been identified as the two victims who were killed in a double murder-suicide in ...