Family devastated after 'one of a kind' daughter, 17, dies suddenly at home
The Mirror – 17th October 2014 Tributes have been paid to a popular teenager who has died suddenly aged 17 of a suspected heart problem. Read More
20/10/2014
The Mirror – 17th October 2014 Tributes have been paid to a popular teenager who has died suddenly aged 17 of a suspected heart problem. Read More
Convenience Store – 8th October 2014 McColl’s Retail Group will run its charity Halloween campaign for the second successive year, teaming up with Cardiac Risk in the Young and St George’s, University London. Read More
The Grocer – 8th October 2014 McColl’s Retail Group is aiming to raise more than £120,000 for charity Cardiac Risk in the Young this Halloween. Read More
British Public Radio website – 2013 The overall winner taking this year’s Gold Award is the winner of the Short Form News/Factual category. Produced by Briony Harrison, In A Heartbeat takes a look into the dangers of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome and discusses the current methods of cardiac screening open to young people. Read More
The Guardian – 23rd August 2014 Andrew Quew got home from work one evening to find his wife’s body on the kitchen floor – she’d collapsed and died suddenly. Their two-year-old daughter, Caitlin, had spent the rest of the day playing beside her The last morning the Quews would ever wake up as a family of
Paperblog.com – 21st August 2014 The Anton Reid Foundation have released details of this years ‘Black Tie Event’, which will be held at Walsall Football Clubs Banks’s Stadium on Saturday 4th October 2014. Read More
Continuity Central website – 9th April 2014 The 6th Annual Bang Awards, the UK’s alternative business continuity awards, will be presented on 30th April in London. The awards ceremony, at the Old Doctor Butlers Head pub, is free of charge to attend. Read More
BBC News – 20th August 2014 An 18-year-old student has made a scientific breakthrough that could help save the lives of black athletes with undiagnosed heart problems. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can lead to the heart suddenly stopping. Henry Roth, from Hampshire, proved different tests for the condition were needed for black and white athletes – which do
Noodls.com – 12th May 2014 The sudden cardiac death of young people could be prevented by a basic screening programme costing just £35, say experts. Some high-profile deaths of young sportsmen have led to calls for routine tests to check for any heart abnormalities. Read More
Medindia – 12th May 2014 A new study presented at the EuroPRevent meet revealed that wide-scale screening to detect risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people was feasible and cost effective. More than 12,000 people aged between 14 and 35 were screened at a cost of £35 (40 euro) each; rates of subsequent referral
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