"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first ...

He was 78.Barnard suffered a fatal asthma attack Sunday morning after going for a swim at a resort in Paphos on the southwest coast of Cyprus, where he had been vacationing, according to a statement ...

Although Christiaan Barnard (who died in 2001) is venerated as the first to successfully transplant a human heart, on December 3, 1967, McRae shows that he was only one of four heart surgeons who ...

Denise Darvall, 25, had been killed in a car accident. But her heart would get a chance to live on in a history-making procedure. As Dr. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD performed the world’s first successful heart ...

Christiaan Barnard, M.D., the South African surgeon who preformed the first heart transplant, said, “I have saved the lives of 150 people by heart transplants. If I had focused on preventive medicine ...

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, a South African doctor working out of a little-known hospital who became an international hero by performing the first successful human ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) _ Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first heart transplant and became an international celebrity, died Sunday in a resort on the southwest coast of Cyprus. He was ...