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A drug used to treat people living with Type 2 diabetes could also help improve their heart function, according to research we've funded at the University of Leeds and presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference.

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Dr Angel Yun Sum Wong

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are a new group of drugs used to prevent blood clots. They are used as an alternative to warfarin. Usually, people taking DOACs are also taking several other medications, which increases the chance of drug...

Scientists at the University of Oxford are to investigate why people store fat in different parts of their body.

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The BHF has responded to the Government's Spring Budget.

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Imperial College London | Dr Zachary Whinnett

People with abnormal heart rhythms are sometimes treated with a method called ‘pacing’ which uses small electrical pulses to reset their heartbeat. Scientists have recently discovered a new method for resetting the heartbeat called His-paci...

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University of Birmingham | Professor Jonathan N Townend

Supervised by Professor Jonathan Townend, the Clinical Research Training Fellow on this project is working out why people with slightly reduced kidney function - a very common finding on blood tests - are more likely to develop heart and ci...

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