“Thank you for this wonderful website to get awareness out there about heart disease for women. It has been invaluable for me."
–Her Heart Donor
Think heart disease is something that only affects overweight, old men? Think again. A massive 49 per cent of heart attacks in Australia occur in women – worst still, women are twice as likely to die from heart disease as men. In fact, 29 Aussie women die because of heart disease every day – that’s four times as many as breast cancer.
Dr. Linda Worrall-Carter awarded The Casey Kinnaird Community Award at the League of Women Female Entrepreneur Awards, as a female entrepreneur who demonstrates a love of life, helping and inspiring others, selflessness, positivity and a beautiful heart, everything former NSW Crusader, Casey Kinnaird embodied.
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This review will provide an overview of literature that has linked caregiver stress with development and progression of disease, via interactions between the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and immune systems. The…
Keeping our heart healthy and avoiding foods that can hurt our heart health is a great way to prevent disease, symptoms of old age, and high blood pressure or cholesterol…
Women visiting their doctor are less likely to be advised regarding heart health and more likely to be told to lose weight, according to a recent study that will be…
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Originally posted on Eben Bein When her tests came back normal, Carolyn Thomas was mortified. Even from her desk in the palliative care department of British Columbia’s Royal Jubilee Hospital, Thomas…
Photo: Iceland Monitor/Styrmir Kári A major discovery by Icelandic genomics company DeCode Genetics could lead to new ways of combating coronary artery disease. The DeCode team have discovered a rare…
Dr Linda Worrall Carter heads up Her Heart, Australia’s only charity dedicated to women and heart disease. Her Heart is the only not-for-profit in Australia focused on education and awareness of heart disease, the biggest killer of women in our country.
