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An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

Medical technology company BiVACOR built the heart made of titanium, which works on the same scientific principle as high-speed magnetic levitation (MagLev) trains. On 9 July, surgeons at the ...

next to an X-ray machine, Dr. Nellis Smith, head of cardiac CT at Sequoia, is sitting in a control room 20 feet away, seeing a clear colorized picture of the patient's heart in 3-D on a computer ...