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Oct Nov 2011 - Issue 40

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50 years of the BHF50 years at the heart of health

It’s our 50th birthday this year and we’re celebrating by telling  stories of progress in heart medicine from our past 50 years. From patient stories to incredible medical breakthroughs, we take a look at how diagnosis, treatment and prevention has moved on since 1961, and how the BHF played its part.

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Your letters
Statins, growing your own and support from Heart Matters feature in the letters pages this issue.

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Cigarette vending machines go on the scrapheap
Vending machines have long been an easy way for children to get hold of cigarettes. Thanks in part to the BHF's tireless campaign, they are to be removed from all premises in England.

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Science image competition revealed
Professor Nic Smith from King’s College London triumphed over BHF-funded scientists from all over the UK, with his beautiful computerised image of blood flow through vessels of the heart.

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Cigarette vending machines go on the scrapheap
Vending machines have long been an easy way for children to get hold of cigarettes. Thanks in part to the BHF's tireless campaign, they are to be removed from all premises in England.

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Give schools the kiss of life
Emergency life support (ELS) skills are the simplest set of actions needed to keep someone alive until the professionals arrive. We're campaigning for all children to be taught these in school.

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Hope for heart failure
Professor Paul Riley has been awarded the second grant from our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal, staring at Oxford University in October. But before he left the University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health, his team made a significant breakthrough.

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My world, by John Jenkins
Our regular columnist, Fleet Street journalist John Jenkins, is proud of his fundraising. He and his family raised £500 for the BHF by doing the London to Brighton bike ride.

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Behind the headlines
Read what the BHF has to say about health stories that have been making the news. In this issue, read about teenagers' diets, aspirin and a possible injection for heart disease.

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