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The Healthy Heart Charity

The Healthy Heart Charity

Preventing heart disease: start young

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  • World Healthy Life Week 2022
    • The Art of the Heart Awards
    • LONG COVID AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
    • MENTAL HEALTH AND CIRCULATION – CLOSE LINKS
  • World Healthy Life Week 2021
    • World Healthy Life biographies
    • World Healthy Life week: Active transport for better health. Tuesday 2nd November 2021
    • World Healthy Life week. Improving heart health for women: Wednesday 3rd November 2021
    • World Healthy Life week. Exercise for better health: Thursday 4th November 2021
  • Healthy Life Webinars
    • Monday 29 November 2021: Improving outcomes in peripheral vascular disease
    • Monday 16 August 2021: Healthy Life Webinar: The Role of Pharmacists in Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
    • Monday 26 July 2021: Healthy Life Webinar: Updates on Stroke Prevention and Treatment
    • Monday 22 March 2021. Healthy Life Webinar. What to do about atrial fibrillation?
      • Monday 25 Jan 2021. Health of world leaders: Winston Churchill’s illnesses
  • Health and Poetry
    • Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
      • 2017 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize to be awarded at Harvard
      • Healthy heart charity the CRT supporting 2017 Hippocrates International Young Poets Award for Poetry and Medicine
      • Poetry and healing: the 2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
      • A love of life: CVRT patrons announce winners of 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet Award for Poetry and Medicine
      • Stories of illness and love of life: shortlist for 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet award for poetry and medicine
      • Lyrical beauty: international shortlist announced for Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Enter free for the international £500 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • The immediacy of illness: the 2020 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Candid elegies: results in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Shortlist announced for 2018 International Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
      • Hippocrates Young Poet shortlisted for anorexia-inspired poem Husk
    • Healthy Heart Poetry
      • Videos of Healthy Heart Poetry
  • Publications
    • Storm Brain: the Hippocrates Book of the Brain – Published in December 2021
    • The Hippocrates Book of the Heart – Published in September 2017
  • Who we are
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    • External Advisory Panel
    • International Advisory Board
  • News
    • Healthy heart charity the CVRT to support the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for a further 3 years
    • ‘Big Data’ to improve development of medicines
    • Developing health policy to protect the heart and circulation
    • Writing to delight and instruct: the Hippocrates Book of the Heart
    • Poetry to prevent childhood obesity? The Healthy Heart Poetry Project
    • Wendy French discusses our new initiative: Healthy Heart Poetry for schools
    • School winners of CVRT Healthy Heart Awards
    • New target in search for why statin drugs may cause problems for some patients
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New target in search for why statin drugs may cause problems for some patients February 10, 2016
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Recent Posts

  • Professor Albert Ferro appointed as Chair of Cardiovascular Research Trust January 9, 2023
  • Art of the Heart Awards winner 2022 November 2, 2022
  • A tribute to our founder, Professor Donald Singer November 2, 2022
  • Obituaries on our founder, Professor Donald Singer October 17, 2022
  • Webinar: MENTAL HEALTH AND CIRCULATION – CLOSE LINKS September 22, 2022

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