Doctor Warrick Bishop | Heart Attacks Are Preventable!

Authors and More with Doctor Warrick Bishop

Doctor Warrick 24/09/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances 0 comments

Doctor Warrick Bishop returns offering a fascinating insight into the heart as he joins Karen Kelly for this weeks episode of Authors and More

Appetite for Life with Dr Warrick Bishop - Preventative Cardiologist

Doctor Warrick 16/09/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances 0 comments

Dr Warrick Bishop elucidates the key to a healthy heart as founder of The Healthy Heart Network after his experience with a patient and runner led to cardiac arrest and with statistics to lose sleep over, this is one show not to miss.

The Gift of Life

Doctor Warrick 10/09/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Great Health Guide , Heart Health 0 comments

The world's first human heart transplant was performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, by surgeon Christiaan Barnard, on 3 December 1967. The 'new' heart functioned normally until the recipient's death from double pneumonia 18 days after the historic operation.

On Treating Individuals Like A Patient And Not A Disease - By Dr Warrick Bishop

Doctor Warrick 25/08/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances 0 comments

“I ended up as a cardiologist by chance." As a young fellow at high school, I was good at mathematics and technical drawing together with physics and chemistry and thought my career would be in engineering. As fate would have it, I had the opportunity to do work experience in a local civil engineering company at that time. Not understanding what civil engineering was, over two weeks I observed mainly office based work focusing on retaining walls and draining systems. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is was a fair representation of the breadth and interest that engineering could offer, but I didn’t know that and I was no longer enthusiastic about engineering from the experience.

Channel 7 TV: New Life-saving treatment used to lower cholesterol levels in high-risk patients become more affordable

Doctor Warrick 04/08/2021 Media Appearances , Cholesterol 0 comments

Tasmanian doctors are welcoming new Federal Government subsidiaries, set to make life-saving treatment used to lower cholesterol levels in high-risk patients more affordable

Elevated Cholesterol in the Time of COVID

Doctor Warrick 27/07/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Heart Health 0 comments

COVID-19 and heart disease are not happy bedfellows but they can become companionable. As the pandemic rolls on, it is apparent that older people and those with comorbidities are more at risk than others. Those comorbidities include conditions related to long-term elevated cholesterol levels, such as previous heart attack or previous stroke. These raise concerns around how best to approach living in a virus-infected world.

No Longer Fearful (Great Health Guide July/August 2021)

Doctor Warrick 08/07/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Great Health Guide , Heart Health 0 comments

The two words, 'heart failure', send a spark of fear through the healthiest of people. What most people hear are the words 'heart attack' and, even in today's world of medical marvels, they spell F-E-A-R. Yet, those are two very different conditions.

A Broken Heart Can Be Mended (Great Health Guide May/June 2021 Issue)

Doctor Warrick 03/05/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Great Health Guide , Heart Health 0 comments

Severe crushing chest pain hits you. OMG - a heart attack! Or is it?

Women & Heart Failure (Great Health Guide March/April 2021 Issue)

Doctor Warrick 08/03/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Great Health Guide , Heart Health 0 comments

Heart failure, or cardiac failure, is a weighty condition in today's society, affecting approximately 480,000 people in Australia and more than 25 million world-wide. The Cinderella of cardiovascular disease; it is much less known than heart attack or stroke, yet heart failure (HF) is a serious condition with a worse outcome than most cancers. And it affects more women than men.

The Atrial Fibrillation Epidemic (Great Health Guide January/February Issue)

Doctor Warrick 12/01/2021 Blogs , Media Appearances , Great Health Guide , Atrial Fibrillation 0 comments

An ageing population and our western lifestyle are ensuring that the prevalence of a common medical condition, atrial fibrillation (AF), is increasing at such a rate that it is predicted to be the next cardiac epidemic.