BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A combined effort by the Texas Heart Institute (THI), BiVACOR®, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, and Baylor College of Medicine resulted in a historic medical achievement: the first successful in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Read More...
A remarkable milestone in medicine was reached by doctors in Maryland who have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human patient in a do-or-die situation. David Bennet, a 57-year-old handyman, was the recipient of this life-saving operation. He knew that the Read More...
On average, 17 people die each day in the US because they aren’t able to get an organ transplant in time. That’s what makes the emergence of artificial organs such an exciting development in the world of medicine — and that’s also why the news about the successful completion of the first Read More...
While heart transplant surgeries have saved numerous lives, far more lives could be saved if there were just as many organs available as people in need of heart transplants. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Most patients will spend time on a transplant waiting list, and many will never find a Read More...
In what is a world-first and potentially the dawn of a new medical technology to treat damaged hearts, scientists in Japan have succeeded in transplanting lab-grown heart cells into a human patient for the first time ever. The procedure involved harnessing the incredible potential of induced Read More...