Heart Valve Bank

The latest Heart Valve Bank newsletter is now available for download - Newsletter for October 2008.

Articles in this issue include:

• Love in Action: Good health is often defined as a state of complete physical, mental and spiritual well being. However, in the age when financial and institutional considerations have assumed priorities, empathy, love and compassion have been pushed in the background. Yet these very factors can contribute to the general well being of individuals in general and patients in particular. It is for these reasons that the young adults belonging to the Heart Valve Bank’s Grama Seva Youth have initiated a series of visits to the elderly people’s homes through out the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.
• Human Values and Corporate Ethics in Medical Care: The provision of medical services in the United Kingdom is undergoing a revolution in the primary care sector. As primary care trusts are looking more to private investors to help bolster their funds, the employment of managers, management consultants and the increasing use of statistical spreadsheets instead of the sheet of compassion have the potential to run health care services as any large corporate business that often leads to its dehumanisation. The bottom line may then be not the health and well-being of the patient, but the pocket of the investor and shareholder.
• Diabetes and the heart: Diabetes mellitus is a widely prevalent disease that affects multiple organs in the body. While type 1 diabetes affects children and young adults, type 2 diabetes usually affects those over the age of forty.

Read about these articles and more by downloading the latest newsletter.