Heart Disease (young people)
HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.
21/06/2001
HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.
A pioneering project aims to screen 1,000 children in the Western Isles of Scotland to spot potentially fatal heart defects early. The programme, to be carried out by Cardiac Risk in the Young, will be the first attempt to identify heart defects in children who have shown no evidence of ill health. Hundreds of young people
TRAGIC teenager Richard Allen died suddenly from a rare heart condition – but the tragedy saved his brother's life. Richard 16, collapsed at home from a massive heart attack. But tests showed that an undetected defect was also present in brother Stephen, 19. He was rushed to hospital to have a defribillator fitted inside his chest
A RARE heart condition has killed a teenager – but the tragedy has saved the life of his brother with the same illness. Richard Allan, 16, collapsed without warning because of the previously undetected disorder. The cause was put down to the little understood Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, used to describe apparently inexplicable fatalities. Then doctors
Following the death of 26-year-old runner Anna Loyley minutes after the 1998 Bath Half, UK Athletics, in conjunction with the National Sports Medicine Institute, established an expert panel to examine the issue of screening runners who take part in road races. The goal was to identify the heart disorders that cause Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). SDS
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Living with Loss CRY is a charity that offers help, support and counselling to families where there has been a sudden cardiac death of an apparently fit and healthy young person (Sudden Death Syndrome, SADS, SCD, SUDS) Please call us on 01737 363 222 if you have suffered a loss and would like to talk CRY
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