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  • Women and heart disease

    Find out how heart disease symptoms differ for women

  • What is heart disease?

    Know the facts about heart disease. Get your free heart disease information booklet here.

  • What is cardiovascular disease?

    Find out about cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis, its main cause

  • How to lower blood pressure

    Find out what high and low blood pressure readings mean, and how to lower blood pressure levels.

  • How to lower blood pressure

    Find out what high and low blood pressure readings mean, and how to lower blood pressure levels.

  • Cara's story

    Congenital heart disease affects up to one in every 100 babies. I was that one baby. My name is Cara. I’m 35, and I’ve had five open heart surgeries.

  • Elle’s Story

    When Elle Pendrick was told she needed her fifth open heart surgery at age 33, she was completely numb and shell-shocked.

  • Job opportunities

    Enjoy the career benefits of work and study with international leaders in the field of cardiovascular research.

  • All about fat

    Due to the popular low-fat diets of the 80s and 90s, combined with the even more popular high-fat diets of the 2000s (Atkins and later paleo), many people are confused by this hotly debated nutrient: fat.

  • How to work out without leaving the house

    Exercise has well-documented benefits for decreasing the risk of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, but more than half of Australians are not getting enough physical activity. For many people, the hardest part of exercising is building the motivation to actually start doing it. For others, the expense of a gym or buying special equipment or activewear just isn’t in the budget.

  • A paramedic’s perspective on stroke

    A stroke can happen at any time. Usually when you least expect it. If you have any combination of stroke symptoms, you urgently need to call emergency services to get paramedics to assess you, or at least get to hospital as soon as possible.