Media Releases

The Heart Foundation has announced funding for a new nursing training fellowship of $25,000 to be awarded in 2020.

It's a love story with a happy ending – Elizabeth and Paul O'Brien will be celebrating this Valentine's Day with the knowledge Elizabeth's heart has finally recovered.

MPs are showing their big hearts throughout the country, by supporting the Heart Foundation's Big Heart Appeal street collection this month.

Young, fit and loving life. At only 41 Trudy Hudson-Owen never thought she'd have a heart attack, let alone in such a dramatic way. The Whangarei mother of two was washing the windows at home on a Sunday afternoon, when she started to feel unwell. And within 20 minutes, she had no pulse.

The Heart Foundation is teaming up with New Zealand’s biggest esports broadcaster in a 90-minute live gaming livestream.

The Heart Foundation Lottery, one of our significant fundraising programmes, is being impacted by the Covid-19 restrictions which are affecting our ability to operate as usual.

Pacific health leader Dr Collin Tukuitonga is joining the Heart Foundation as its Chief Advisor Pacific.

About 21,000 years of life are lost by women to heart disease each year, and research shows heart attacks are misdiagnosed more often in women than men.

The Heart Foundation says there is an urgent need for a national action plan for heart health and is calling for cross-party support for Government to develop one.

Toi Te Kupu is a renewed Māori-to-English and English-to-Māori dictionary about kai, cooking, our body and our mind.

The Heart Foundation is aware of recent email approaches to local businesses in the Rotorua Region, requesting sponsorship and asking for donations in an online auction.

The Heart Foundation is proud to support leaders across all areas of medicine in Aotearoa, such as Waikato Hospital staff nurse Edel Schick, whose work will focus on patient education and heart disease prevention at a grass-roots level in the community.