Stories

No two heart attacks are the same, and women can experience different symptoms to men. Dunedin woman June Aerakis knows that all too well.

Nikki Tod just wants to be able to jump on the trampoline with her children without feeling exhausted and breathless.

Rachel Turner says one of the hardest things about having a heart attack so young is that most people don’t believe she had one.

Amanda Simkin's heart decided to stop working three weeks after her wedding day. When the 26-year-old emerged dazed from a coma three days later, she didn't even recognise her new husband.

I felt like a proud Aunty when I watched a confident Freda delivering a nutrition session to the participants of an eight week challenge at Nine27 gym in Manukau recently.

We always enjoy telling people they’ve won a prize in our Lottery but breaking the news to Neil and Joan Kirby was particularly memorable.

Just because you're fit doesn't mean you won't run into heart trouble. Bob Webster knows that all too well.

Shaun Lewis was 40 years old, fit, happily married and father to three young kids. Although he had a family history of heart disease, he kept a close eye on his health and there were no alarm bells.

Blair Thorpe is the first to admit that he has a long way to go, but spending more than five hours a week at the gym and training for the Star City 2 Surf is already paying dividends.

Christchurch businessman Mike Pero does everything he can to stay healthy but one risk factor he can’t control is his ethnicity.   

While hundreds of volunteers were hitting the streets to collect during Heart Week, one Tauranga mother found a novel way to raise funds through Trade Me.

Luke Cairns’ wife and three young children could easily have spent Christmas 2014 without a husband and father.