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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Every year thousands of people in the UK are diagnosed as having had a heart attack. It is not always easy to confirm a heart attack has occurred, because the nature and severity of symptoms varies. One of the tests doctors use analyses blo...

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University of Oxford | Dr Alastair Webb

Dr Alastair Webb and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are looking for ways to prevent people who have had strokes experiencing another one. To do so, they are trying to identify factors which could predict the likelihood of anothe...

Guidelines and terms of reference for BHF Trial Steering Committees.

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This award celebrates young fundraisers, advocates and heart patients who have done amazing things in support of BHF’s lifesaving work.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Gavin Jarvis

Some medicines do more than one thing at a time. For example, aspirin is great if you have a headache and is also used to help prevent a heart attack in people at high risk. It does this by blocking the action of platelets. Platelets are sm...

One of our long-standing volunteers has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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University of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor

Angiogenesis - the process of new blood vessel growth - is an area of interest for many heart researchers as there is still a need to develop therapies to encourage new vessels to grow in oxygen-starved areas to heal injury after a heart at...