27th November 2007 BBC Journalist Paul Clabburn writes a compelling article for the BBC News website about the sudden death of his son Tom
Read Update 60 online here The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, published three times a year, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.
Read Update 61 online here In this issue: • ‘Young Sudden Cardiac Death: A Father’s Grief’ booklet launch, page 10 • Justice for James: Reopening the Inquest into the death of James Markham, page 10-12 • CRY at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Conference, page 17-18 • CRY Golf Day 2013, page 18 • West ’12
November 1993 First cardiac screening by Professor McKenna and Alison Cox, of Elite Tennis Players at the Lawn Tennis Association National Tournament. Included Tim Henman, Jamie Delgado and Jo Durie
1994 Tennis ‘Skipathon’ raises £10,000 as a down-payment for an echocardiogram machine that launched the Specialist Cardiac Unit at St. George’s Hospital, Tooting
1996 Lawn Tennis Association formalise screening programme with CRY that had been done annually since 1993. Become the first sport in the UK to offer comprehensive cardiac testing to all its elite junior athletes
January 1997 CRY completed funding of Siemens Accuson Ultrasound ECHO machine worth £140,000, at St. George’s Hospital. This machine has now tested over 14,500 people
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