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British Heart Foundation Professor Gianni Angelini, the first head of the Bristol Heart Institute, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Coronary Artery Surgery for his pioneering work and research.

Research we've funded has shown that a simple 60-minute iron treatment every one to two years could reduce the risk that people living with heart failure will be admitted to hospital.

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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...

Women, Black and South Asian people, and those from the most deprived communities are less likely to receive treatment after a diagnosis of the heart valve disease aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

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

Thanks to 60 years of public support, we’ve become a global leader in funding heart and circulatory disease research, which has helped to improve and save millions of lives. But as the world responds to a pandemic on a scale unseen for a century, we’re having to work harder than ever to protect our life saving work while playing our part in fighting coronavirus (Covid-19).

British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) and the Donate4Dáithí campaign have urged the Stormont Health Committee not to lose momentum in the plans to change organ donation legislation.

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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...

Our BHF Scotland shops are gearing up to welcome back customers across the country next week, as lockdown restrictions continue to ease.

The BHF reveals Brits sewing secrets to launch their Big Stitch campaign this July.