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 […]

ARVC patient Dana Edkins and her HF Nurse take on the 4-Day IOW Challenge Island Escape to raise awareness on Heart Failure Awareness Day GeorginaGeorgina Newnham, a Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist on the Island is getting ready to support one of her patient’s on their ambitious IOW challenge to raise money and awareness of […]

Social Networking Use Has Shot Up in Past Decade – for over 65s Silver Surfers Triple and all adults are up ten fold A study by the Pew Research Center has revealed a rapid rise in the use of social media networking among the over 65s in recent years, with users in this age group tripling […]

NICE Publish Guidance for Sacubitril valsartan NICE gives green light to new heart failure drug set to benefit 100,000 people with common heart condition In guidance published today NICE has recommended new heart failure drug sacubitril valsartan (Entresto, Novartis), the first drug of its kind, as an option for some people with heart failure. The […]

Tesco now HeartSafe with 900 defibrillators installed in their stores Arrhythmia Alliance has announced that every Tesco shopper is now HeartSafe with the placement of over 900 automated external defibrillators in stores across the UK, supported by the Defibs Save Lives campaign. This follows the launch of the Arrhythmia Alliance manifesto, ‘Now Is The Time… for […]

SIGN Publish New Chronic Heart Failure Guidelines Version for Patients A new patient version of the SIGN Chronic Heart Failure guidelines was published this week for people with Chronic ‪‎Heart Failure‬ in Scotland and their family, friends and carers. This new booklet explains the recommendations set out in a clinical guideline (published in March) produced […]