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 […]

The Pumping Marvellous Foundation today added the following comment following NHS England Announcement on the fufture of congenital heart disease services, and transfer of selected CHD surgical and interventional cardiology: “Our concerns are for patients and how this will affect them, with increased cost and length of travel” – The Pumping Marvellous Foundation Read the […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

    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 […]

INVITATION: Discussion Sessions for APPG Heart Failure Inquiry The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Heart Disease (a group of MPs and Peers with an interest in this issue) is currently holding an Inquiry into living with heart failure. The Heart Failure Inquiry is covering the diagnosis, treatment and care, both in hospital and the community, […]

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 […]

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of their first heart attack Risk factors to develop heart failure include older age, socioeconomic deprivation, and diabetes One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25 000 patients presented today at […]

Detecting fluid retention in patients early is important to prevent their heart failure from getting worse. Nurses who are trained in the use of handheld pocket ultrasound devices can dispense diuretic drugs more precisely. These medications prevent harmful fluid retention in patients with heart failure. Researchers at Levanger Hospital and the Norwegian University of Science […]

Medtronic’s ICDs with Atrial Fibrillation Detection Win FDA Approval Medtronic plc today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA approval for the Visia AF MRI(TM) SureScan® and Visia AF(TM) single-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). The Visia AF devices can detect previously undiagnosed and/or asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) and monitor recurrent AF, while […]