Video from the the visit to the Birmingham Ormiston Academy by CRY Patron Pixie Lott and CRY representative Peter Teale. CRY Patron Pixie Lott has been touring schools and academy’s a like to raise awareness of young sudden cardiac death. Whilst spreading the message to help save young lives Pixie has been treating pupils and students to
Families from across the West of England joined together to help launch a major regional campaign to highlight the shocking statistic that 12 young, apparently fit and healthy young people (aged 35 and under) are tragically dying every week in the UK from previously undiagnosed heart conditions. A poster-sized version of an emotive new postcard –
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