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National Publication |
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| 02/05/05 |
Daily Telegraph
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'Grief like this can drive you insane'
When she arrived, Howard was still connected to the resuscitation equipment, but its use had been futile from the start. He had died instantaneously on the field – a 32-year-old, super fit sportsman in his prime whose heart had inexplicably stopped.
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| 17/04/05 |
News of the World
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Doctors have told me if I kick another football I'll die
Andy Scott knows he should be dead – only a sixth sense prevented him from suffering a fatal heart attack on the pitch. He has now been forced to quit football after doctors warned any physical exercise could kill him.
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| 31/08/04 |
Daily Express
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Killer that claims four young lives each week
Caroline Gard has endured every parent’s worst fear. In 1997, when her son Andy was just 17, he died suddenly and without warning, alone in his bedroom. She now campaigns for cardiac screening to be available to all youngsters.
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| 13/06/04 |
The Observer
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Parents call for action on sudden death
There are effective treatments to prevent these deaths but there is no targeted provision in the healthcare system to manage this. Families with these problems are not being systematically referred to specialist or properly evaluated.
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| 17/05/04 |
Daily Mail
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An hour later she was dead
A smiling girl posed beside her birthday cake at her 18th party. An hour later she collapsed and died dancing with her friends.
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| 11/03/04 |
Parliamentary Press Release
Press release |
Charity's heart-felt plea for new screening law
Heart campaigners have thrown their support behind a new Private Member's Bill calling for legislation to grant effective, automatic screening on the NHS for all families at high risk of sudden cardiac death syndrome which currently claims the lives of up to eight, apparently healthy young* people every week in the UK
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| 07/01/04 |
Parliamentary Press Release
Press release
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European success in campaign to recognise "Sudden Death Syndrome"
'Mission accomplished' Our campaign linking with MEP's Linda McAvan and Catherine Stihler and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to get an international code for sudden death syndrome conditions has been achieved.
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| 01/12/03 |
Health Which |
Special investigation: sudden death - unexpected and unexplained
Colin Meek looks beyond the dramatic headlines to investigate what's known about sudden unexpected and unexplained deaths |
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| 01/11/03 |
Pharmacy Magazine
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Sudden Adult Death Syndrome
Research published in the Lancet last year suggested that as many as eight lives were being lost each week in the UK to 'Sudden Death Syndrome' (SDS), an umbrella term used for the many different causes of cardiac arrest in young people.
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| 27/10/03 |
The Times
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Survival of the fittest
Tony Blair's heart problems are not the only ones to have made it on to the political agenda in recent weeks. Two Labour MEPs have launched a campaign in the European Parliament to call on the World Health Organisation to recognise and officially name sudden death syndrome.
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| 10/10/03 |
British Medical Journal
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MEPs lead campaign to get sudden unexplained deaths recognised as a syndrome
Deaths that remain unexplained after a postmortem examination are registered and coded as due to causes that may be vague or incorrect, they add, making it difficult to construct an accurate picture of the real scale of the problem.
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| 07/10/03 |
Parliamentary Press Release
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Campaign to recognise 'Sudden Death Syndrome' goes to Europe
On Wednesday, Labour MEPs Linda McAvan and Catherine Stihler are launching a new pan European campaign in the European Parliament in Brussels calling on the World Health Organisation to officially recognise and name the syndrome.
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