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A 58-year-old man in the United States is the first person in the world to have had his failing heart replaced with a temporary, titanium blood-pumper. The metal organ looks like it was made for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Houghton believes his new titanium heart has left him unable to emote. Aug. 30, 2007 — -- Facing death in 2000 due to severe heart failure, Peter Houghton's London doctors extended his ...