Month: June 2016

St. Jude Expand Heart Failure Portfolio

St. Jude Medical Expand Heart Failure Portfolio with SyncAV CRT Technology, Providing Physicians Another Option for Managing Patients Not Responsive to Other Therapies Adding SyncAV™ CRT technology to the company’s comprehensive heart failure offerings provides further advantages to the St. Jude Medical portfolio to support physicians seeking new treatment options for heart failure patients St. […]

June 30, 2016

Anti Diabetes Drug Trials for Heart Disease

New Anti Diabetes Drug Trials launched to determine benefits for Cardiovascular Health Researchers at the University of Dundee have launched a series of projects to determine whether a new class of anti diabetes drug could also be used to treat heart disease. Diabetes and heart disease are frequently seen together and can be a potentially […]

June 27, 2016

New PPCM Awareness Steering Committee

PPCM Awareness Steering Committee – A New Birth of Awareness for Heart Failure Mums Inaugural Meeting for PPCM Awareness Steering Committee: A ground breaking step forward for The Pumping Marvellous Foundation who have been supporting mothers with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM), and helping in every way we can to raise PPCM awareness. A number of mums came together, […]

June 20, 2016

MedTech Week: Heart Failure Patient Innovation

For MedTech Week, leader of HF advocacy and the heart failure patient conversation, Nick Hartshorne Evans explains how and why patient-led heart failure communities are driving access to the latest heart failure information, innovations and therapies MedTech Week: How to Enable Access to Innovation in Heart Failure for Patients? QUESTION: As an active leader in […]

June 17, 2016

Treating Heart Failure – Open Letter to The Telegraph

    Nick Hartshorne Evans’ Voices Concern in Open Letter to The Telegraph – Treating Heart Failure Following news from the recent studies about a 36% rise in heart failure hospitalisations in the past decade, Pumping Marvellous founder, Nick Hartshorne Evans’ sends an open letter to The Telegraph raising his concerns about the growth and […]

June 17, 2016

Heart Failure Hospital Visits Up a Third

Record number of heart failure hospital visits sees alarming 36% increase in past decade say BHF – Number of people with chronic condition grows by nearly 10,000 in a year. The number of heart failure hospital visits has increased by more than a third in the last ten years as more people are diagnosed with […]

June 2, 2016