HCA Virginia’s Chippenham Hospital has started implanting mechanical heart pumps in advanced heart failure patients, partnering with VCU Medical Center to send patients there who qualify for heart ...

Biomedical implants – such as pacemakers, breast implants and orthopedic hardware like screws and plates to replace broken bones – have improved patient outcomes across a wide range of diseases.

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically ...