Earlier on Singularity Hub, we took a detailed look into the magic of heart replacement surgery (and even growing hearts with stem cells). It’s a great way to tack on a few extra years to patients who ...

LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- Jewish Hospital is pulling out of the AbioCor artificial heart program. WAVE 3 Medical Reporter Lori Lyle has followed these groundbreaking procedures from the beginning and ...

A man was implanted with a self-contained artificial heart Thursday, becoming only the second patient in the world to receive the experimental device. The softball-sized device was implanted into the ...

Surgeons implanted an artificial heart into Tom Christerson one year ago and today it's still beating. The heart has kept the Central City, Ky., resident alive ten times longer than anybody had ...

DANVERS, Mass.DANVERS, Mass. — Abiomed Inc. said Tuesday the first patient implanted with its AbioCor artificial heart outside a clinical trial died about 10 weeks after surgery. The company said the ...

Inventions come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as simple as purple catsup. Others push the limits of quantum physics. The real measure of an invention is not just how well it works or how ...

The third recipient of a self-contained artificial heart suffered a stroke Friday morning, but his physicians at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital said Monday he is making a good recovery. Bobby Harrison, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Tuesday marks the 18th anniversary of a major medical breakthrough that took place right here in Louisville. Robert Tools received the first-ever AbioCor, a fully implantable ...

Danvers, MA - Abiomed Inc announced that it had not yet attempted the first implantation of its AbioCor? Implantable Replacement Heart, which had originally been slated for June 30, 2001. The company ...

The general media did an excellent job of reporting on HPS. Some of the headlines were very eye-catching. "Even heart patients with seemingly healthy cholesterol levels live longer and better if they ...

NOVA: What are the advantages of continuous rather than pulsatile (pulse-like) flow? Frazier: With continuous flow, there isn't a pulse. Without a pulse, it is not necessary to have volume ...

CENTRAL CITY, Ky., June 27 (UPI) -- With summer approaching, Tom Christerson has one goal in mind. The longest surviving recipient of an AbioCor artificial heart implant wants to spend time on his ...