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How life can change in a heartbeat – when aortic dissections strike without warning
Posted: 06/11/2024
Four thousand people suffer aortic dissection in the UK each year and only 50% of them survive. Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the inner layer of the aorta, the body's main artery, tears. Blood rushes through the tear, splitting the inner and middle layers of the aorta, which is known as a dissection. Aortic......>>
National Cholesterol Month – simple changes to keep your heart healthy
Posted: 29/10/2024
The charity Heart UK has named October as National Cholesterol Month. The organisation aims to prevent early disease and deaths in the UK from cholesterol and other blood fat conditions, and the focus of National Cholesterol Month is to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining a healthy cholesterol level. What is cholesterol......>>
Heart Month 2024: understanding cardiac arrests and heart attacks, and what to do when they occur
Posted: 13/02/2024
Each year in the UK and the US, the month of February is marked as Heart Month; a time when various organisations contribute to raising awareness about heart health and educating individuals on ways to prevent cardiovascular fatalities. This article concerns cardiac arrests and heart attacks; the main life-threatening conditions that arise......>>
World Heart Day 2023: strategies for improving heart health and 'Stayin' Alive'
Posted: 29/09/2023
According to the World Heart Foundation, heart disease and strokes caused more than 20 million deaths in 2022 alone. This is even more shocking when statistics also indicate that up to around 80% of heart-related deaths are preventable through lifestyle modifications, early detection and diagnosis, and proper medical care......>>
Know your Numbers: the flagship campaign encouraging the nation to keep blood pressure under control
Posted: 07/09/2023
Know Your Numbers Week runs from 4 to 10 September 2023 and is aimed at improving awareness around the importance of blood pressure testing......>>
Patients, families, charities and doctors join forces to set out priorities for research into congenital heart disease
Posted: 09/05/2023
Congenital heart disease (CHD) means a heart condition or defect that develops in the heart before a baby is born. There are many different types of CHD, all of which affect the heart in different ways. Sometimes, it is possible to detect that the condition has resulted from faulty genes or chromosomes, other times, it is impossible......>>
Clinical guidelines and the law of negligence: the relationship between protocol and medical judgement in assessing an appropriate standard of care
Posted: 20/02/2023
When investigating a clinical negligence claim, solicitors are always focused on whether the care provided met an acceptable standard of care. The treatment need not have been gold standard, it need not have been what all clinicians would have done but it does need to meet an acceptable standard. In the context of negligence......>>
Heart infections: how to avoid a delayed diagnosis and stay safe this winter
Posted: 05/12/2022
A growing body of research suggests that heart health is impacted by cold weather. Studies also show that the prognosis for those with heart infections falls as the air temperature drops. As we slip into the winter months, this article is intended to help individuals gain knowledge about heart infections, so that they can achieve an earlier diagnosis......>>
British Heart Foundation reports that heart health has reached a tipping point
Posted: 10/11/2022
In the UK, one person dies every three minutes as a result of heart and circulatory diseases. Over the last ten years, these deaths account for around 25% of all deaths in England annually. Heart and circulatory diseases also contribute up to a quarter of the life expectancy gap in England between the most deprived and least deprived communities......>>
Potential heart disease cure renews calls for screening programme to save young lives
Posted: 16/08/2022
In recent days, scientists have reported that they believe they can produce an injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions that can kill young people in the prime of their lives. It is clear that much has moved on in the world since 2019 when we published an article on whether it was time for a cardiac screening programme in the UK......>>.
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