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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.

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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...

Becky was fitted with an ICD at age 24. Find out how she’s learned to see the positives.

Researchers we've funded have developed a new type of ‘heart plaster’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations.

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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...

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.

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

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.

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King's College London | Dr Gian De Nicola

Dr Gian De Nicola is a structural biologist. He examines the shape and size of biological molecules like proteins, and tries to determine how their shape is related to their function in the body. He has been working in Professor Michael Mar...