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Celebrity couple donate treasured items to the British Heart Foundation and encourage the public to bid on the charity’s eBay auction, to raise funds for vital life saving research.

There are 206 bones in the human body – ranging in size from the tiniest, found in your ear, to the largest, in your thigh. We have just one heart – roughly the size of your fist – in our chest and continuously pumping about eight pints of blood. 206 bones and only one heart. But how are the two connected? Does the quality of your bones affect your heart?

Stroke research has been boosted by a half a million-pound investment in data-driven approaches to tackle the condition, which strikes one person every five minutes in the UK.

Learn how talking therapy helped Marian Sedgwick overcome a fear of dying after she was diagnosed with takotsubo syndrome.

The British Heart Foundation has paid tribute to the life and work of BHF Professor Alan Williams, who sadly died on 4th May 2020. Professor Williams held one of the highest accolades awarded by the BHF, the Sir Thomas Lewis Chair of Cardiovascular Science, which he held from 2007 until his retirement in September 2019.

Some people with Marfan syndrome have weak blood vessels which are at risk of bursting. This can be fatal. We’ve been funding research to stop this.

How much you can exercise is determined by messages sent between your heart and brain. Jenny Mitchell explains.

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University of Leeds | Dr Stephen Wheatcroft

The majority of people with diabetes die from heart and circulatory disorders so continuing to search for new ways to prevent and treat diabetes is central to tackling cardiovascular disease. Dr Stephen Wheatcroft and BHF Professor Mark Kea...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Jesse Dawson

Stroke causes more than 41,000 deaths in the UK each year. There are around 152,000 strokes in the UK each year and nearly 1.2 million people living in the UK have had a stroke. These people are at high risk of another stroke, and also of a...