News Coverage

FDA Approves Temporary Artificial Heart

The Boston Globe

Oct. 19, 2004

The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that it has approved the first temporary artificial heart for use in patients at risk of dying within 30 days as they await a heart transplant... read more

FDA Approves Artificial Heart Implant

USA Today

Oct. 19, 2004

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first implantable artificial heart, designed to sustain heart-failure patients until they can get transplants... read more

Cardiac Replacement with a Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Aug. 26, 2004

The pivotal clinical study of the CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t)... read more

CardioWest Heart: Living Proof of Success

USA Today

Aug. 25, 2004

Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found, researchers said Thursday... read more

Artificial Heart Buys Time Until Transplant

WebMD Health News

Aug. 25, 2004

An artificial heart keeps heart failure patients alive long enough to receive a heart transplant -- welcome news for the 5 million Americans living with this condition... read more

High-Tech Hearts

CBS News

May 28, 2004

High technology continues to improve the lives of those with heart problems.The latest are implantable devices for the heart, which are helping improve quality of life and save more lives than ever before... read more

Panel Backs Artificial Heart in Dire Cases

The New York Times

March 18, 2004

A Food and Drug Administration panel on Wednesday backed an artificial heart to keep the sickest patients alive while they wait for transplants. The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart by SynCardia Systems would be the first on the market if the F.D.A. follows the advisory panel's 10-to-1 recommendation... read more

Teenage Patient at UMC is Youngest in World to be Placed on Total Artificial Heart

University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center

Winter 2004

Alex Rowe became the youngest person in the world to be placed on a total artificial heart when surgeons at University Medical Center removed his own diseased heart and replaced it with the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart (TAH)... read more (see page 7)

Dr. Jack Copeland Receives National Award for Work with Heart Devices

University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center

June 20, 2001

Jack G. Copeland III, MD, is the recipient of the 2001 Barney Clark Award, a recognition of his success in the use of artificial hearts and heart-assist devices. The award commends Dr. Copeland for "interjecting science into the process, and for leadership in moving the TAH (total artificial heart) from failure to highly successful clinical applications"... read more