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We are pleased to welcome new Group Leader Professor Catherine Hall to the BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research (CVDR)

Our Associate Medical Director, and a GP, Dr Mike Knapton writes about the recent media reports around the possible dangers of the heart failure and atrial fibrillation drug digoxin.

Vinne Jones has joined our star-studded ‘Restarting 11’ – an inspirational team of football stars and real-life heroes – to urge more than a quarter of a million people to learn lifesaving CPR.

It has been a phenomenal year in the world of our research. From lifesaving dementia treatment to using fruit flies to better understand how the heart is formed, each discovery we fund helps take us a step closer to beating heartbreak forever. Here we take a look back at some of our research breakthroughs of 2023.

Weak handshake could be sign of a failing heart. Hand grip strength could be used as a simple measure of heart health, according to new research published today in PLOS ONE and funded by the BHF.

RESEARCH

Imperial College London | Professor Prapa Kanagaratnam

Following a heart attack, part of the heart muscle dies and is replaced by scar tissue. But within the scar, there often remain channels of living tissue that can form a short circuit around the scar, leading to electrical disturbances (arr...

Why does weight loss plateau? Find out why weight loss tends to stabilise at a slower rate after the first few weeks and what you can do about it.

BHF-funded researchers find that overweight patients do better after heart surgery than patients of a normal weight.