The Children's Heart Federation (CHF) launches Let's Get Moving for Heart Children's Health: a call to action to include children with congenital heart disease in PE at school and to increase their access to sport in the community, at its House of Common's reception today (14 May) in the presence of Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Sport and one hundred delegates, including representatives of nine leading sports development organisations.

Patients with heart failure who participated in aerobic exercise training had modest improvements in self-reported health status compared to those patients who did not have exercise training, according to an article appearing the April 8 issue of JAMA. Patients with heart failure often experience diminished health status, including reductions in physical and social functioning and other dimensions of health-related quality of life.