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RESEARCH

University of Strathclyde | Professor Robin Plevin

Cancer treatment can involve killing cancer cells with radiation. Radiation treatment is often successful but irradiation can also damage blood vessels, including the coronary arteries, and people can go on to develop heart disease. The go...

A heart condition doesn’t only affect the person who has it. Mother and daughter Helen and Maddy describe how Helen’s cardiac arrest affected their lives.

Taking medications can be hard to get used to and many people worry about costs and side effects. Our tips can help make adjusting easier.

We are urging the Government to press on with plans to restrict junk food advertising on TV and online.

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Date

22 August 2026

Location

London

Challenge yourself to the London Summer Walk and take on a 25km walk across London

Laughing is not only enjoyable, it can also be heart-friendly. So is laughter the best medicine after all? Find out how joy affects health and wellbeing.

RESEARCH

University College London | Professor Peter Scambler

The BHF is helping researchers at University College London provide world-leading facilities for heart research by contributing £80,000 towards a new state-of-the-art microscope. Researchers use high quality microscopes to visualise cell...

Researchers we fund at the University of Edinburgh are to use pioneering imaging techniques to investigate scarring in the heart, which could pave the way for major advances to save and improve more lives from heart disease.

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are investigating a new treatment for diabetes which they hope could reduce one of the most common complications of the condition – sight loss.

RESEARCH

University of Nottingham | Dr Vera Ralevic

Every year thousands of people suffer a heart attack, which starves the heart of oxygen. To help preserve its function, the heart and circulatory system respond by undergoing various changes that attempt to reduce the damage. One of these i...