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 […]

Support Heart Failure Patients This Christmas with our HO HO HOPE Twibbon It’s the season to be Marvellous! HO HO HOPE Twibbon!   Supporters across the UK are joining together to support heart failure patients and their families this Christmas with Pumping Marvellous’ new seasonal HO HO HOPE Twibbon campaign. Add this Twibbon campaign to […]

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, […]

NIHR CLAHRC Wessex – How Social Network Community Support Aids Management of Long-Term Conditions – Can You Help? Our friends at the National Institute for Health Research CLAHRC Wessex are calling for people with Heart Failure and other long term conditions to help inform them of the help they receive from social network and online support groups to […]

New analysis of Novartis’ Entresto® data shows long-term benefits on heart failure readmissions and total cardiovascular deaths Entresto® reduced the risk of first and subsequent events of heart failure hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths following heart failure hospitalization by 20%-24% compared to enalapril[1] These findings are consistent with the benefit Entresto showed in reducing the risk […]

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 […]

Parliamentary heart failure inquiry highlights 10 key recommendations as to where the NHS could improve treatment to people diagnosed with Heart Failure “The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s patient led Heart Failure Charity welcomes 10 key recommendations which are essential to improving the care for Heart Failure patients in the UK” Tuesday 13th September 2016 […]

Alliance for Heart Failure CALLS ON NHS TO DELIVER ambitious Parliamentary Inquiry report Experts say heart failure services have room for improvement Tuesday 13th September 2016 The Alliance for Heart Failure (AHF) has called for immediate action from NHS England to draw up and implement a viable timetable to deliver the recommendations of the ‘Living […]

Does device longevity of ICD/CRT-D differ among manufacturers? What factors might be associated with the need to replace ICD devices? The longevity of ICD/CRT-D defibrillators is extremely important from both a clinical and economic perspective. As published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, multi-specialist scientists studied the reasons for device replacement, the longevity of removed ICD, and […]

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, […]

National Heart Failure Audit 2014/15 published “The National Heart Failure Audit Report of 2014/15 continues to draw our attention to the high mortality rates for hospitalized heart failure patients. It also highlights potential solutions. Patients with heart failure have a lower mortality during and after the admission if they are cared for by cardiologists and […]

  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 […]