Vital Beat

Vital Beat has created a unique and specialized protection and comfort solution for people with medical devices such as an ICD, EV-ICD or S-ICD. Wearing the Vital Beat shirt and protection shields will allow you to safely and comfortably enjoy your sports, hobbies and work. The Vital Beat solutions are available for all ages. Our youngest users are just 2 years old […]
Never the Same Man by Richard Moore

Ask how I’m doing, do the pills go down ok?Somedays I’ll say I’m fine, just to make you go away. ‘If I open my eyes what will I see?’ I opened my eyes and tried to focus. I saw curtains surrounding me and the bright white sheets of the bed. I realised the ‘beep……beep……beep’ was […]
CRY Cardiology Conference 2024

The CRY cardiology conference is an annual event which attracts speakers and delegates from around the globe, including many of the world’s leading experts on sports cardiology and young sudden cardiac diagnosis. The CRY conference draws together experts in the fields of sports cardiology, inherited cardiac diseases and sudden cardiac death in the young, who […]
Lagan Valley AC raise vital funds for CRY

The charity that helped to save the life of one of its young athletes through its screening programme June 2025 17-year-old, Scott Owen, presented a cheque for £2,000 as he shared his personal story about the benefits of heart screening in young people Lagan Valley AC has gone the extra mile, literally and figuratively, by […]
CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk 2025

CRY’s flagship event, the CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk, will be held on the 22nd of June 2025 at Southwark Park. If you would like to sign up, please follow this link to register: https://www.c-r-y.org.uk/heart-of-london-bridges-walk/ The walk, beginning at 11am, is approximately 6.5 miles long, starting and finishing in Southwark Park. In the afternoon, […]
Ben’s big daft run for Cardiac Risk in the Young

Last year (2024) I was diagnosed with a heart arrythmia that required two procedures to fix over the course of about 10 months. Prior to this I was fit and healthy and had never had any real signs that I had any issues with my heart. Needless to say, that this really sucked. The procedures […]
Research Opportunity: Exploring the Impact of an Inherited Cardiac Condition on Individuals and their Families

Katrina Martindale from the University of Surrey, is leading a research project ‘Exploring the Psychological Impact on Individuals and their Families Following a Diagnosis of an Inherited Cardiac Condition’. Watch Katrina’s brief about the research below. If you would like to take part in this research or if you have any questions about this, please […]
The Psychological impact of Inherited Cardiac Conditions in Young People

Dr Vicky Kelly is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Service Lead for the Barts Heart and Thorax Centre Psychological Services at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She set up this service in 2017, after working in paediatric cardiac psychology services at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 2009. Prior to this she worked in Paediatric Palliative Care, Cystic […]
I thought I would be in and out in 10 mins after having an ECG but… by Laura Harris
My initial ECG picked up some abnormalities so I was asked to wait and was then given an echocardiogram. I was seen by the consultant and told that my echocardiogram had picked up that I had mild aortic regurgitation
myheart hard copy newsletter-2023

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