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A nutritionist explains how you can eat more healthily but still enjoy cooking, eating and to focus on positive changes instead of depriving yourself.

Explore the science driving our experts to a cure for inherited heart muscle diseases.

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University College London | Professor Shamshad Cockcroft

Supervised by Professor Shamshad Cockroft, a PhD student is investigating how we keep the mitochondria inside heart cells working properly, so they can provide the energy the heart needs to beat. A molecule called cardiolipin is essential ...

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Regardless of cause, most heart diseases ultimately result in the heart being unable to pump out as much blood as a normal heart can, because it can’t contract as forcefully. To contract, the heart needs an energy source called ATP, and it’...

Medicines can help prevent or treat heart conditions, like high blood pressure, angina, heart attack and heart failure. They’re also used to keep symptoms under control. Some people take medicine for a short time and others may need to take it for longer.

We’ve teamed up with Full Potential to offer you a guide to the highs and lows of running with a baby on board, and the importance of listening to your body.

Leading researchers have signed an open letter urging the Government to prioritise cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the upcoming Life Sciences Plan.

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University of Glasgow | Professor Godfrey L Smith

The normal heartbeat is coordinated by electrical impulses which spread rapidly through the heart. During a heart attack a blood vessel in the heart is blocked and the tissue supplied by that vessel may die, becoming replaced by scar tissue...

Find out more about the anatomy and function of the heart and circulatory system. Have a look through our pictures of the heart and learn more about what it takes to keep our blood pumping.

Olympic legend and our ambassador Roger Black is urging people across the UK to walk more this Heart Month, as new research shows walking is the nation’s top health goal for 2026.