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A thirteen-year-old boy is calling on schools and workplaces to support his project which aims to reduce the number of Kiwis dying from cardiac arrest.

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Article updated 27/03/2015 We're thrilled to be launching a New Zealand-first website called HeartHelp, which makes it easier than ever for people with heart disease to access support and advice.

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Trends on how to eat come and go, making diet advice confusing. In this article we explore different dietary trends and the benefits they could have for your heart health.

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Does eating while driving, working or scrolling on your phone sound familiar? We’ve all been there. But did you know how important it is to fully participate in the experience of eating? In this article, we cover what intuitive eating is and ways to help you change your mindset around…

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For Natalie, a young wife, mother and nurse, her cardiac event happened on what seemed like an ordinary evening. But her nursing background immediately sounded internal alarms and she knew she was experiencing something out of the ordinary.

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Jim thought heart attacks always came with the kind of crushing pain seen on TV. So he was surprised to discover he’d had a heart attack without knowing it. In 2004 he wrote this story about his experience of heart disease.

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Brian, an active 69-year-old teacher, was surprised when he was first diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF). Now he knows that while he’ll have AF for life, that doesn’t mean it’s a ‘life sentence’.

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Feeling like a fraud, speech and language therapist Annabel went to get the ‘vague heaviness’ in her chest checked out by a doctor. Tests showed she had had a heart attack. Further tests showed that the heart attack was caused by a tumour inside her heart.

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