Rob Evans, 61, sits at the UCLA Hospital in Westwood, ...

Genaro Molina | published: September 12, 2011

Rob Evans, 61, sits at the UCLA Hospital in Westwood, California, on July 28, 2011, where he is a heart transplant patient. The hosptial is experimenting wiht a new heart transplant procedure that keeps the heart beating outside the body using a mechanical device instead of the traditional ice method to preserve the organ in transit. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/MCT).