This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Mechanical pumps originally designed to supplement the pumping action of ...

As Tucson toddler Tiana Lopez returned home last weekend after a spectacular recovery on an experimental heart device, the same device was pumping for another local baby with life-threatening heart ...

The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery. In this undated stock photo a Dr. listens with stethoscope. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images New promising data finds that a small heart pump ...

What are Ventricular Assist Devices? Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are mechanical heart pumps. 1 They use electrical and mechanical technology to support cardiac functioning by helping blood to ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A West Virginia man and another in Ohio have become the first U.S.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted conditional approval to conduct an Investigational Device Exemption study of Jarvik Heart’s new miniature Left Ventricular ...

The characteristics described in this table are general. The intra-aortic balloon pump has been excluded since to it does not generate its own volume stroke. *Clinical approval of ECMO is variable ...

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Ochsner Children's Hospital, ranked among the top ...

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Ochsner Children's Hospital, ranked among the top ...

New promising data finds that a small heart pump device the size of a AA battery could help keep children in need of a heart transplant alive and at home as they wait for a new heart. With this small ...