“Thank you for this wonderful website to get awareness out there about heart disease for women. It has been invaluable for me."
–Her Heart Donor
by Lucy Marks Australian researchers are now coming together to work on new treatment and prevention options, such as long-acting penicillin, said Professor Jonathan Carapetis from the Telethon Kids Institute.…
By Gian de Poloni Pamela McKenzie was in her early 40s and fit and healthy when she suffered a severe heart attack, leaving doctors puzzled. It turned out to be an extremely rare disease — Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) — which occurs when a blood vessel in the heart tears open. Now she’s leading a nationwide campaign to offer comfort and support to other survivors.
ABC presenter Sophie Scott interviews cardiologist Dr Cathie Forster on cardiovascular disease among women. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of Australian women, leading to 31000 deaths each year.…
WOMEN who have a heart attack are more likely to have delayed treatment, be deemed of needing less urgent help, report different symptoms and have a greater chance of dying…
By Karen Cicero You’re 35. Fit. Normal blood pressure and cholesterol. So there’s no way that chest tightness you’re feeling could be a heart attack, right? Not necessarily.
In a perfect world, we'd all have at least an hour a day to devote to our fitness. But in the real world, 24 hours a day doesn't seem like…
Dr. Linda Worrall-Carter awarded The Casey Kinnaird Community Award at the League of Women Female Entrepreneur Awards, as a female entrepreneur who demonstrates a love of life, helping and inspiring others, selflessness, positivity and a beautiful heart, everything former NSW Crusader, Casey Kinnaird embodied.
Think heart disease is something that only affects overweight, old men? Think again. A massive 49 per cent of heart attacks in Australia occur in women – worst still, women are twice as likely to die from heart disease as men. In fact, 29 Aussie women die because of heart disease every day – that’s four times as many as breast cancer.
Kids with empathetic parents have well-documented advantages: less depression, less aggression, more empathy themselves. Parents also report better self-esteem when they make the effort to understand their children’s feelings. But…
This review will provide an overview of literature that has linked caregiver stress with development and progression of disease, via interactions between the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and immune systems. The…
