NEWS Great news for Rheumatic Heart Disease Prevention! We’re very pleased to announce that Bupa and Take Heart’s partnership is set to continue with Bupa’s announcement that Bupa Health Foundation will fund the Take Heart Evaluation....
NEWS As part of Bupa’s commitment to closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, Bupa is supporting the Take Heart movie. The documentary film that follows the stories of four Indigenous Australians – Brooklyn (7), Trenton (8), Carlissa (16) and...
NEWS Sore throats are part of normal childhood illness, no matter where in the world one lives. However for those children living in Africa, this can mean a childhood either cut short by crippling heart failure or the need for open-heart surgery. Rheumatic heart...
NEWS The Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (2nd edition) defines secondary prevention of Rheumatic Fever as ‘the continuous administration of specific antibiotics to patients with a...
NEWS Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy – why does it matter? This blog piece is written by some of the investigators on a NHMRC-funded research project looking at the impact of RHD in pregnancy: Sue Kruske, Suzanne Belton, Liz Sullivan, Juanita Sherwood,...
NEWS Take Heart hit the big screen at BCC Cinemas in Darwin last Thursday night where over 200 people turned out to support the launch! There weren’t many dry eyes left in the house when the lights came up, as sadly this film highlights a serious...
