On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on a human being.

Paul Guggenheimer Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. | Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. Six months before Dr. Christiaan Barnard conducted the world’s first highly-publicized heart ...

Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a ...

For years Nicela Naudé has been fighting a rare disease which causes her one hand to become swollen and red and causes ...

Develops a steroid, cortisone, for this purpose. 1967 The first heart transplant operation is performed by Christiaan Barnard. The patient only survives for eighteen days; later patients survive ...

South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant on December 3, 1967, giving grocer Louis Washkansky, 55, the heart of Denise Darvall, 24, a car accident victim ...