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 […]

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 […]

myheart hard copy newsletter-2023

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624 Reasons Why by Joe McEwan

My name is Joe, and I suppose you could say I’m your fairly average 23-year-old man. I graduated from university with a law degree in 2022, have played sport pretty much my whole life and I love travel, playing guitar and art. I also had a sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 22.

Never Miss a Beat 

By Gem O’Reilly It’s a funny thing being told you could potentially go into cardiac arrest for something you can’t necessarily see or feel. It’s a surreal, intangible experience and very scary.  That’s what happened to me when I was 16. I was diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, which basically means my heart struggles to […]