Category: Heart failure

Major Heart Failure Breakthrough

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, […]

July 24, 2016

National Heart Failure Audit 2014/15

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 […]

July 21, 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

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

Parliamentary Heart Failure Inquiry

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, […]

May 31, 2016

One-in-Four Develop Heart Failure Within Four Years of 1st Heart Attack

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 […]

May 24, 2016

Echocardiography and Heart Failure

We put some common questions to Dr Rick Steeds, Consultant Cardiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Chair of the British Society of Echocardiology (BSE) about Echocardiography and heart failure Alongside his practice in general Cardiology, Rick sub-specialises in cardiac imaging and the management of valvular heart disease. He very kindly, and purposefully answers our questions to […]

April 12, 2016

NICE says ‘Yes’ to heart failure medicine Entresto sacubitril valsartan

NICE says ‘Yes’ to new heart failure medicine, Entresto™ (sacubitril/valsartan), in final recommendation * NICE recognises Entresto sacubitril valsartan as an innovative and cost-effective treatment in the management of symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction * Heart failure affects around 550,000 people in the UK and has a poor prognosis for many patients, […]

March 18, 2016

Trials for First Transcatheter Implant for Diastolic Heart Failure Underway

Ohio State Evaluates First Transcatheter Implant for Diastolic Heart Failure  For the first time in the U.S., a clinical trial is underway that’s evaluating a transcatheter implant device designed to treat diastolic heart failure. The first patient enrolled in the randomized, blinded study is being treated at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Diastolic […]

February 26, 2016

A Valentine Wish For The NHS

A VALENTINE WISH FOR THE NHS – Love is being smart together The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it’ – Nye Bevan A Valentine Wish For The NHS “Love is being stupid together,” so wrote the French poet Paul Valery. While I feel there’s […]

February 12, 2016

Cause of Heart Failure in Pregnant Women Identified PPCM

Penn Researchers Identify Cause of Heart Failure in Pregnant Women Data shows genetic mutation in the TITIN protein causes Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Each year approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnant women will experience peripartum cardiomyopathy, PPCM, an uncommon form of often severe heart failure that occurs in the final month of pregnancy or up to five months […]

January 7, 2016

Stimulating Heart Muscle Cell Growth Breakthrough

Scientists have discovered a way to stimulate muscle cell growth in the heart, limiting the damage to this vital organ after a heart attack. It’s hoped this exciting research, where scientists discover how to stimulate heart muscle cell growth (within the theart), which was conducted by Professor Eldad Tzahor from the Weizmann Institute of Science […]

January 5, 2016