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12th May 2023

“I have loved every single day of being a nurse”

More than three decades after Michelle Beaver began her career, the award-winning cardiology nurse is as dedicated as ever. We caught up with her on International Nurses Day to ...

by Karen Finn Cardio
 
27th January 2023

Artificial Intelligence in heart care is as much about the small as it is about the grand things

by Comms Team Cardio
 
11th October 2022

‘FIGHTING FIT’ THANKS TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

by Comms Team Cancer
 
Cardio 12th May 2023

“I have loved every single day of being a nurse”

More than three decades after Michelle Beaver began her career, the award-winning cardiology nurse is as dedicated as ever. We caught up with her on International Nurses Day to talk about the improvements she’s seen in patient care and ...

• by Karen Finn

Cardio 27th January 2023

Artificial Intelligence in heart care is as much about the small as it is about the grand things

Wendy Davis was a healthy runner in her late twenties when she experienced a sudden heart failure for the first time which led to her being implanted with a pacemaker. Some years later her 8-year-old son had to save her ...

• by Comms Team

Cancer 11th October 2022

‘FIGHTING FIT’ THANKS TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

Anita Tucker was 31 with a one-year-old baby when medical technology flagged that she needed a pacemaker. A few years later, med tech came to her aid again, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now 46, Anita has not only been ...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 28th September 2021

Two heart surgeries and unstoppable

Fitness enthusiast Robyn Cairney was shocked when a cough during exercise led doctors to discover a serious heart condition at age 17. “I was doing some fitness tests at college and after the mile run, I was coughing. It was something ...

• by Karen Finn

Cardio 29th September 2020

Enjoying life with pulmonary hypertension

Despite an overwhelming diagnosis, David Stott returned to enjoying life, family time and staying fit, all while helping others with the same condition – the epitome of today’s World Heart Day message, ‘Use Heart … for society, your loved ones and ...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 14th September 2020

Keeping your heart in the game

When Dan Gay found out that he had a faulty heart valve, he faced the biggest challenge of his life: giving up basketball. The professional basketball player was competing at the World Championships when he collapsed on the court. “They ...

• by Karen Finn

Cardio 25th August 2020

The Heart of a Champion

For Katharina Bauer pole vaulting is her life’s passion — or as she says, “her big love.” The sport of pole vaulting is not for the faint of heart. Competitors sprint down a track and launch themselves into the air, ...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 29th June 2020

She is undefeatable

“I didn't actually realise I had a health problem until I was about seven years old, when my mum told me I had to have an operation on my heart,” says Simone Gomes. This was devastating and confusing. “Even though ...

• by Karen Finn

Cardio 17th February 2020

A heart attack and a new lease of life

Pádraig Ó Céidigh had recently been given a clean bill of health and led a healthy lifestyle, so when he began experiencing chest pain, ‘heart attack’ didn’t even enter his thoughts. “I’d gone to the gym at ...

• by Karen Finn

Cardio 24th September 2019

‘Back on my feet ‘

Anneliese Kopp was always determined to live a full life. Just a few weeks short of her 85th birthday, after 40 years living in Hersel, Germany, she makes it clear that she is a woman of few regrets. ‘I’ve had ...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 22nd July 2019

‘It’s not just a pacemaker, but a smile-maker and a dream-maker’

Marianella is a 38-year-old editor and a keen athlete from Costa Rica. In January 2015, she woke up with a terrible headache, but managed to go to work. Around midday her headache retuned with such force that it knocked her out. ‘...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 4th July 2019

TAVI transformed my life

At age 84, Gerry Phelan thought his breathlessness and fatigue were part of the ageing process, but the symptoms were due to a serious heart condition. Gerry had always been an active man, even after undergoing triple bypass surgery in 2005. However, ...

• by Comms Team

Cardio 24th June 2019

How to keep smiling when you’re 70+ with Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial Fibrillation affects millions of lives everywhere around the Globe. Nina Lapshinova, 71 years old patient from Russia, couldn’t think of anything but her disease until she was advised to go through minimally invasive catheter ablation. “It was not about ...

• by Comms Team

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