Doctors extracted her failing natural heart and substituted it with an artificial implant and a specialised unit attached to her back ...

A woman who carried an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed has died from transplant complications. Rebecca Henderson, 24, from Bicester, was given the green light to receive a ...

A woman who carries an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own organ was removed because of cancer has been added to the transplant list. Becca Henderson, 24, has been given the green light ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...