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
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
The biggest killer for 16 to 35 year olds isn
A golfing tournament will be held on Friday to raise funds for a charity which aims to increase awareness of the risks of cardiac arrest in the young. The event
Any death in sport is one too many. But when the lives of athletes are being cut short from a cause that could be avoided it is tragedy in its most real sense. Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), the result of heart abnormalities, kills eight young people a week in the UK, most of them seemingly fit