"I was scared to death because I didn't have a heart for months." A man surviving without a real heart got a lucky break -- UCSF completed its first successful artificial heart to donor heart ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the ...

Picard Medical (NYSE:PMI), parent company of SynCardia, today announced positive four-year outcomes with its Total Artificial Heart (TAH).

The patient was implanted with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart on September 2, 2021, after developing severe biventricular heart failure. The device replaced the pumping function of both sides of ...

Workers at a Kansas hospital failed to properly sterilize and disinfect open-heart surgery devices, leading to slow-growing M ...

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology.

Three years ago, a four-year-old Alberta boy contracted Group A strep and was taken to the emergency department at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. The child, James, went from feeling ...

San Francisco-based UCSF Health performed its first heart transplant for a patient who previously received a total artificial heart. The 37-year-old patient was admitted in August with end-stage heart ...

Milestone procedure gives young father with advanced heart failure a new heart and new future with his family.

Odie Lawhun's journey began when his primary care provider, nurse practitioner Brandon Grant, recommended a calcium scoring ...

Left ventricular assist devices, also known as partial artificial hearts, or LVADs, have emerged as a standard treatment for pumping blood from the left ventricle to the aorta and therefore helping ...

A prayer gathering was held Wednesday at Dell Children's Hospital for Andres Vega, the LBJ football trainer who had heart ...