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A Deeside campaigner is backing calls for the World Health Organisation to officially recognise the condition which killer her daughter. Labour MEPs took the case for Sudden Death Syndrome to be classified into a specific category to the European Parliament on Wednesday. Connah

 Campaign to Recognise

Eleven months ago former England junior squash champion had a pacemaker fitted after his heart stopped for a few seconds during a health check up. The patient During a routine health check at work in July last year the doctor noticed that I had a slightly irregular heartbeat. When I told her that I had been feeling

Alison Linforth, a "bubbly and happy" 16-year-old, had complained of slight chest pains, but these had been passed off as indigestion. The teenager was sitting at her desk on her first day as an A-level student last September when she suddenly fell unconscious. Staff at Cadbury Sixth Form College in Kings Norton, Birmingham, tried to revive

My sister, Laura and I are own as the "Bionic Babes" in our home town of Southampton, because we both have tiny defibrillators implanted in our chests, designed to constantly monitor our heartbeat, and shock us back to life if it ever stops. We both have a rare condition that means our hearts can stop if

Screening drive in son Leon's memory A mum

HOW MANY TIMES WILL I HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE? My daughter Pauline leant over the pram, gently she lifted her tiny baby Vicky out, cuddled her close.

The family of a man who dropped dead in a pub from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is donating more than £2,000 from a commemorative event to a charity tackling the condition. Thomas Lloyd, 36, the youngest of seven children raised in Portnall Road, Paddington, died on June 11 from the same affliction which killed Cameroon

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It's every parent