Everything that’s about your heart and circulatory system
28th September 2017
Many think that heart problems are exclusively an affliction of older people, but cardiovascular disease can affect younger adults and children, too. Fortunately, medical technology can help heart patients live full lives. Although it’s true that aging as well ...
3rd August 2017
Ulf Lohmann was frustrated that chronic high blood pressure had taken over his life. Then doctors offered him an innovative new treatment that completely turned things around. For years Ulf was taking pills that didn’t seem to have any ...
13th July 2017
When 76-year-old Maria Sugliano had the chance to be the first person to try a new technology for her heart failure, she didn’t hesitate to accept. Four years later, Maria is happy to share the story of what she ...
6th July 2017
Erica’s life literally changed overnight. One day, the 38-year-old mother of four was playing in a tennis championship at her local club and the next day, she was having a heart attack. “I had no health problems. I had ...
28th February 2017
Rare diseases are tricky. Just ask Becky Scheffe, who waited 20 years to get a proper diagnosis for her Long QT syndrome, a heart condition that only affects about one in 7,000 people. It all started when Becky was 17. “I had a ...
28th September 2016
Replica heart sparked surgical breakthrough – could doctors print living organs next? Her parents hoped she had asthma. Little Mia was often out of breath and picked up respiratory infections often than other children – coughs, colds and even pneumonia. But while ...
16th June 2016
When a valve in Katja Jensen’s heart stopped working properly, doctors said surgery would be too risky. But doing nothing wasn’t an option, either. Katja found out that her aortic valve had narrowed to one-third of its normal ...
31st March 2016
A nine-year-old girl from Bangladesh needs a €5,000 heart operation but her family’s income is just €70 per month. Now a charity is stepping in to provide less-invasive surgery – for free Fima has a hole in her heart. It causes palpitations ...
27th January 2016
Mike Higginbottom blamed his struggles with exercise on being unfit…until his heart stopped beating one day at the gym. “Apparently I pirouetted off the cross trainer, fell on my back and hit my head. I was out like a ...
9th December 2015
Daniel Titley found a way to show his gratitude 23 years after receiving a donor heart from 14-year-old Stephen Norris, who’d lost his life in a bike accident. Unfortunately, he couldn’t thank Stephen himself, so he did the next ...