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University of Birmingham | Dr Steven Thomas

Platelets play an essential role in normal blood clotting to prevent blood loss after injury, but also when there is unwanted clotting in a blood vessel, called thrombosis. Scientists now have a greater understanding of the blood clotting p...

As the bright lights of this year’s BRIT Awards are readied to celebrate the best of British and international music, we are urging the public to learn lifesaving CPR to a song from this year’s nominees.

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University of Bristol | Dr Rebecca Foster

Dr Rebecca Foster and her team at the University of Bristol are working out how people with diabetes develop diabetic kidney disease, which is a condition that affects small blood vessels in the kidneys. The cells on the inside of blood ...

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Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

One of the challenges in studying heart diseases is developing more accurate ways to replicate what happens inside the body. Because the cells of the heart work under constantly changing physical and chemical conditions, they have unique ...

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University of Oxford | Dr Richard Tyser

The heart is the first organ to form in an embryo, and must begin to pump early, but exactly how it first starts to beat is not understood. We know that the beating of the heart is caused by calcium, which moves in and out of cells and tri...

Heart rhythm problems left Andrew McDonald feeling low. But a lifelong dream of flying a Spitfire helped him get off the ground. Read more.

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University of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley

The epicardium is the outside layer of the heart. It is made up of cells that are essential for normal heart development. If these cells could be switched on in adults who have sustained a heart injury, it may be possible to encourage heart...

Following newspaper reports claiming sunshine can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease, we look at the research behind the headlines.

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University College London | Professor Eric Brunner

In 1985 a major research study was launched, with the ambition of investigating the causes of social inequalities in health. The study, called Whitehall II, recruited 10,308 London civil servants aged 35- 55 and has followed them up with re...

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Imperial College London | Dr Susanne Sattler

After a heart attack, damage to the heart muscle can lead to heart failure. This is when the heart lacks the strength to pump blood around the body efficiently. Current treatments for heart failure are limited, and researchers around the wo...