Please Help The Royal Brompton Hosptial Find Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients With Recovered Heart Function for a Current Study – TRED Researchers at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and the NHLI (National Heart and Lung Institute) are still working hard on a new BHF-funded dilated cardiomyopathy study. They are currently inviting patients with a previous DCM diagnosis, whose […]

Robot sleeve attaches directly around the heart Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot sleeve that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting […]

High Pain Tolerance May Mask Silent Heart Attack Symptoms Silent heart attacks may go unrecognized among individuals with high pain tolerance, putting them at an increased risk for poor recoveries, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. A heart attack […]

Patients identify heart failure specialists for the Marvellous Awards 2017″ Preston, Lancashire, December 2016 – Health Care Professionals throughout the UK have been recognised and honoured by patients for their exceptional quality of care and treatment. Sponsored by The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, this award acknowledges the value that these Health Care Professionals bring to the […]

Eindhoven researchers develop faster, new patient-friendly method to determine severity of heart failure Methods currently employed to determine the severity of heart failure are very limited. Researchers at TU/e and the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven have therefore developed a method that is very quick, non-invasive, cost-effective and can be performed at the hospital bedside. Moreover, […]

Research shows reduced hospitalisations for heart failure patients with annual flu vaccination   “Patients with heart failure have a substantially increased risk of admission to hospital, and a proportion of these admissions are thought to be related to influenza (flu) infection, or at least triggered by an influenza infection.”   Whether the flu vaccination can reduce […]

Lack of Heart Failure Awareness is Putting British People at Risk of Heart Failure PRESS RELEASE: 06:00 Thursday 29th September 2016. UK. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, a patient-led heart failure charity in the UK, finds that half of the UK is unaware of the symptoms of heart failure   Around 1 in 5 people in […]

The Royal Brompton Hosptial Are Seeking DCM Patients for a New Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study TRED Researchers at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and the NHLI (National Heart and Lung Institute) are to begin a new BHF-funded dilated cardiomyopathy study. They are currently inviting patients with a previous DCM diagnosis, whose heart function has recovered after a […]

Stem Cell Implants Could Be The Key – Reversing Heart Failure Breakthrough. In a ‘astonishing’ new trial, eleven heart attack patients with stage 3 heart failure, and expected to die withing two years,  are today fit and healthy after scientists regenerated their damaged hearts with stem cells, in a ground-breaking, heart failure breakthrough, phase IIa, […]

  Electromechanical cardioplasty using a wrapped elasto-conductive epicardial mesh Electromechanical hug for the heart A mesh that wraps around the heart can strengthen a failing heart, a new study shows, in rats Interesting news for Cardiac Resyncronisation Therapy; Jinkyung Park from the Institute for Basic Science in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues design a soft, elastic […]

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. […]

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 […]

    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 […]

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 […]

A 3-minute education to the new version of the ESC Heart Failure Guidelines 2016 Professor Adriaan Voors (Groningen, The Netherlands) ESC HF 2016 Professor Adriaan Voors, ESC Heart Failure Guideline Task Force Co-Chairman summarises the most important changes in the 2016 guideline presented in Florence at the ESC Heart Failure Congress today, as compared with […]