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Blog with Her Heart Community Ambassador – Debra Clare

Blog with Her Heart Community Ambassador – Debra Clare

Debra Clare's experience with heart disease started when she began to feel chest pain and became unwell for over a year. She went to her GP and the hospital multiple…

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Blog with Her Heart Community Ambassador Lisa Bennett

Blog with Her Heart Community Ambassador Lisa Bennett

Our Founder Dr Linda Worrall-Carter had the pleasure of talking to Community Ambassador Lisa Bennett. Lisa is an incredibly inspiring woman who (in a relatively short time after heart surgery)…

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Interview with Her Heart Ambassador Kate McCarthy

Interview with Her Heart Ambassador Kate McCarthy

Our Founder Dr Linda Worrall-Carter had the pleasure of talking to Kate McCarthy, women’s AFLW player for St Kilda. As a high performing athlete, Kate is living proof that living…

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My journey to becoming alcohol-free and how you can do the same in 2021
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My journey to becoming alcohol-free and how you can do the same in 2021

    It’s been over a year now since I stopped drinking alcohol and I have honestly never felt better in my life. The habit just sort of creeps up…

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David’s Story of losing his sister Melanie

David’s Story of losing his sister Melanie

Melanie never woke up.  On Saturday 2nd June last year, Melanie and her husband James spent the day as many young families did – looking at a potential new house…

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Living With Atrial Fibrillation – Sally Brooks’ Story

Living With Atrial Fibrillation – Sally Brooks’ Story

After a night of casual drinks with friends four years ago, Sally Brooks realised something was not quite right with her heart. It wasn’t until six months later that she was diagnosed with the most common heart rhythm disorder in women, Atrial Fibrillation – or AFib.

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Perth mum suffered heart failure while pregnant

Perth mum suffered heart failure while pregnant

(by Cathy O’Leary) Kayla Gerrans still cannot believe she came close to needing a heart transplant just because she was pregnant. Only now —18 months after she collapsed with heart failure in a hospital carpark — can she talk about her brush with death when she developed rare pregnancy-induced heart failure.

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I don’t drink or smoke but I had a heart attack at age 30

I don’t drink or smoke but I had a heart attack at age 30

PEOPLE are shocked when I tell them that I had a cardiac arrest at age 30. But I’m the face of heart attack — this is what it can look…

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The shocking health fact every woman must know

The shocking health fact every woman must know

Heart disease is the leading killer of Australian women, yet only 28 per cent of women know this. One Australian woman died of heart disease every hour in 2015, three times the number that died of breast cancer. This imbalance is what has led Dr Linda Worrall-Carter, who has a PhD in nursing, to change tack after 15 years researching heart disease at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s hospital, to establish Her Heart.

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