Video: Need to improve healthcare for larger patients (UK)

The NHS is poorly prepared to treat obese patients, an analysis of patient safety records suggests. The Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust team reviewed nearly 400 cases submitted to the National Patient Safety Agency to identify what mistakes were being made. The researchers highlighted a range of issues, including problems with drug doses, ventilation and surgery. Kathryn Szrodecki, who campaigns on behalf of overweight people, and GP Dr Rosemary Leonard, discuss the healthcare needs of larger patients - BBC

Video: How to build a beating heart

The National Geographic Channel is currently featuring the latest in organ generation technology in its Explorers series. Here's a snippet from the full show:

Video: Preparing for Cardiovascular Surgery - Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada

Preparing for Cardiovascular Surgery is a 23 minute video produced by Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada, in 2004. Your host, Deborah Lendzyk-Sorestad, R.N., BSN, introduces the video: "It has been determined that you will require cardiovascular surgery. In this program we will introduce you to many members of the team that will be involved in your surgery. We hope that this will help prepare you for the days ahead, and help alleviate some of the anxiety that is normal for you and your family to feel at this time"

Mending Broken Hearts - an appeal to find a cure for heart failure - British Heart Foundation

The British Heart Foundation writes: "The good news is that fewer people are dying from heart attacks. The bad news is that hundreds of thousands of people are living with badly damaged hearts and heart failure. Heart failure cuts short thousands of lives every year, but now scientists have the first real hope that these lives could be saved. We now need to spend £50 million to fund the groundbreaking research that could begin to literally 'mend broken hearts' in as little as ten years"

Mending Broken Hearts Appeal - British Heart Foundation from British Heart Foundation on Vimeo.

New campaign video showcases global disparity in access to insulin for people with type 1 diabetes

A new World Diabetes Day video has been produced to showcase the global disparity in access to insulin for people with diabetes. 'O is for outrage' shows how in parts of the world people with type 1 diabetes are able to live in full and healthy lives, while in others, diabetes can bring death and disability at a young age due to lack of access to insulin, the life-saving drug discovered ninety years ago:

Video: Consequences from PCRM (USA)

"Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's provocative new fast-food commercial draws attention to the link between heart disease deaths and fast food. Studies show that people who consume fast food are at a higher risk for obesity, a factor contributing to heart disease. High-fat, high-sodium offerings at fast-food restaurants include products such as KFC's Double Down Combo Meal, which has 45 grams of fat and 2,120 milligrams of sodium, and McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meal, which has 61 grams of fat and 1,650 milligrams of sodium"

David Letterman visits 'The View' to talk Heart Surgery with Barbara Walters (Video)

"Late Show" host David Letterman recently paid a visit to "The View" on ABC as part of the "Welcome Back" for host Barbara Walters. Walters had heart surgery back in May 2010, and is feeling great following it. Letterman has also had major heart surgery and talked about the ordeal on the show:

Video: Kill or Cure? - From the heart

"Strokes are a major public health issue in Europe and are among the leading causes of death and long-term disability in all developed countries. Urgent action is needed to address the dramatically increasing clinical, economic and social burden of stroke in Europe, but what can be done?"

Video: Volunteer Heroes- British Heart Foundation

Meet some of the British Heart Foundation Shops volunteers who talk about what they enjoy most about working in our stores

Saskatoon Health Region - Patient Safety Week

Saskatoon Health Region celebrates Canadian Patient Safety Week, November 2-6, 2009. In this video, see highlights of some of the initiatives the Health Region is undertaking to improve patient safety:

Video report: Cardiac Stem Cells (USA)

"There is a new avenue for repairing damage caused by heart attacks. Local doctors are experimenting with using patients' own stem cells to make their sick hearts healthy again. Carlos Amezcua has the video report"

Video: Inhaling a heart attack: How air pollution can cause heart disease

One in three Americans suffer from hypertension, a significant health problem that can lead to cardiovascular disease, heart failure, stroke, diabetes and other life-threatening problems. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have determined that the very air we breathe can be an invisible catalyst to cardiovascular disease

Saskatoon Health Region YouTube channel

The Saskatoon Health Region YouTube channel is now available

Fresh garlic in your diet may help ward off heart trouble: a Living Well video

Elizabeth Penniman of the Cleveland Clinic discusses a study which found that fresh garlic could help ward off heart disease

ESC: 'It's Difficult to Die from a Heart Attack Today'

"Adults today can expect to live 10 years longer than the average adult 30 to 40 years ago, and most of that extra decade resulted from advances in cardiovascular medicine, especially the treatment of myocardial infarction, researchers said. "In cardiology, we have contributed seven of those 10 years of life, while oncologists have contributed 2.4 months," said Roberto Ferrari, MD, PhD, President of the European Society of Cardiology.""

Out of Order video podcast from BHF

"How easy is it for children to buy cigarettes in pubs? Unchallenged? This British Heart Foundation video podcast lays bare the disturbing facts. It's the latest part of our campaign for an immediate ban on the sale of cigarettes from vending machines."

Knebworth Jog 2009 - video

Video from the British Heart Foundation's Knebworth Jog 2009

SCA Foundation announces winners of video contest

"Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Foundation has announced the winners of its first video contest designed to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest. The student competition drove teams from across the country (USA) to submit videos about the importance of CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) use, and empowering students to make a difference in helping to save lives. The Grand Prize Winner is St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Salisbury, Maryland. The SCA Foundation will award the school with a new AED, three CPR Anytime™ kits, and a Nintendo Wii game system"

Video: open heart surgery at the Wellcome Institute (UK)

An audience of 200 people gather to watch a surgeon perform open heart surgery live:

CARG BBQ 27 May 2009 - videos

Videos taken the at the CARG BBQ, 27 May 2009, are now available at YouTube