An amateur footballer who collapsed during a match after a cardiac arrest has thanked an opposition player, who is a nurse, for saving his life. John Harkin’s heart stopped for 27 minutes during the football match in Childwall, Liverpool in March. Opposition centre-half Alex Megias, who works at Aintree Hospital, ran over and put Mr…

In the UK around 73,000 people suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, that’s around 200 people every single day. Sadly the survival rate is less than 1 in 10, and survival falls by 10% for every minute a patient doesn’t receive CPR or defibrillation.   With 80% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happening at home…

Most British adults were unaware of the recommended maximum daily salt intake when asked, according to new polling commissioned by the British Heart Foundation. A survey of over 2000 British adults conducted by YouGov found that only 19% were able to identify the 6g per day maximum recommended by the Government, which is about a…