That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...
The device, developed by medical technology company BiVACOR, is a titanium blood-pumper designed to fully replace the function of a failing human heart. The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH ...
These replica hearts, which are smaller than a grain of rice, have blood vessels and all the cell types that are usually found in the human heart. They even beat like the real thing. Researchers ...
In 2018 an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed that 83,000 deaths and over 1.7 million injuries were caused by medical devices. Ms Macpherson hopes that ...