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Artificial Heart Transplant Commemorated
BYU NewsNet
Dec. 3, 2007
The University of Utah and the Utah Artificial Heart Institute held a two-day symposium at the Huntsman cancer center last weekend to commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the first artificial heart implanted into a human being... read more
Portability in Works for Artificial Hearts
Deseret Morning News
Dec. 2, 2007
Europeans who have been implanted with an artificial heart can go home fairly quickly to wait for a human-heart transplant. In the United States, artificial hearts and those who need them never leave the hospital, due to the large devices that power the heart... read more
Symposium Held to Commemorate Artificial Heart Transplants
KSL 5 Salt Lake City
Nov. 30, 2007
Scientists and students are paying tribute to Barney Clark who, on this night 25 years ago, was about to be implanted with the world's first permanent artificial heart. They're meeting through tomorrow at the University of Utah for a two-day commemorative symposium... read more
Artificial Heart Makes Its Return to Utah
KSL 5 Salt Lake City
Nov. 26, 2007
The total artificial heart is coming back to Utah. Twenty-five years ago this week Barney Clark was the first patient to get one. Twelve years ago at LDS Hospital, a second implant. Now, the beat goes on... read more
Total Artificial Heart Patient Nears One-Year Anniversary of U-M High-Tech Implant
University of Michigan Medical Center
Sept. 4, 2007
A year ago 42-year-old Phillip Hall was facing near-certain death, perhaps within weeks. But today he's about to celebrate his birthday, his 10th wedding anniversary and the one-year anniversary of the day he was rushed into a U-M operating room and implanted with a temporary total artificial heart that saved his life... read more
Artificial Heart Saves Michigan Man
NBC Detroit
Aug. 10, 2007
It was a drastic measure for a desperately ill patient. Just 41 years old, Phil Hall of Belleville, Mich., was suffering from congestive heart failure. He needed a heart transplant to survive, but doctors were unable to find a donor heart... read more
Area Man Receives First Temporary, Totally Artificial Heart
FOX 29 Philadelphia
Feb. 19, 2007
An Ambler man received the first temporary Total Artificial Heart. The two major pumping chambers of 46-year-old Gary Onufer's heart had failed and the former fitness instructor was near death. Doctors gave him this device to keep him alive. Dr. Brian McDonough reports... read more
A Broken Heart Replaced
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feb. 14, 2007
For years, Ramon Harmon was kept alive by some of the most expensive, state-of-the-art medical innovations, including a sophisticated artificial heart that noisily beat in his chest for the last six months... read more
Local Icon: Pioneering Heart Surgeon, Dr. Jack Copeland
Foothills Magazine
February 2007
Dr. Jack Copeland has enjoyed a career filled with milestones. One of the world’s premier heart-transplant surgeons, he began his career at the University of Arizona in 1977. Just two years later, he performed University Medical Center’s first heart transplant. At the time, UMC was one of six heart transplant centers in the world... read more
Cover Story: Healing the Heart
National Geographic
February 2007
The cover story for the National Geographic February issue, "Healing the Heart", features the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart. Click the links below for the article, multimedia presentation and more.
Matters of the Heart: A multimedia presentation of the article
Feature: The complete text of the article
Photo Gallery: A gallery of the photos used in the article
On Assignment: Notes from photographer Rob Clark
