Heart valve disease is a common, serious but treatable condition, often associated with ageing, yet only 3% of older Canadians are aware of its most common formi Survey shows huge variance across Canada in use of simple stethoscope check to pick up characteristic ‘murmur’ of the heart valves, from 60% […]

TORONTO, June 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Heart Valve Voice (HVV) Canada, a non-profit patient advocacy organization for those with heart valve disease, urges provincial governments and health care institutions to prioritize the treatment of heart valve disease patients as elective surgeries are reassessed and begin to resume during COVID-19. […]

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Heart Valve Voice US is deeply concerned that the patient perspective was omitted from the recent guidance on resuming cardiovascular procedures released in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and endorsed by more than one dozen medical societies. On April 20, 2020, Heart Valve Voice US cataloged the […]