Perhaps this title was initially Reuters' error? Their current headline reads, "France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human". This sounds like

Perhaps this title was initially Reuters' error? Their current headline reads, "France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human". This sounds like a big first step for this company, though as other commenters have noted, this is certainly not the first artificial heart implanted in a human. Certainly, if there were a viable long-term replacement that didn't require people to become brain dead so that others could get a heart transplant, that would be a major boon to humanity. And a 5-year bridge, if the hopes for the lifetime of this device pan out, would be a major forward step.