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Thanks to fundraising through our partnership with Royal Mail, the BHF's heart helpline is now free to call for the first time since the service was first made available over 20 years ago.

More than 8,200 women in England and Wales could have survived their heart attacks had they simply been given the same quality of treatment as men.

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University of Edinburgh | Dr Tijana MITIC

BHF Career Re-entry Research Fellow Tijana Mitic is studying ways to restore blood supply in the legs when blood vessels become damaged, for instance in peripheral arterial disease. Peripheral arterial disease results from a build-up of...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett

Atherosclerosis occurs when fatty deposits, known as plaques, form in the walls of our blood vessels, such as the coronary supplying the heart. Some of these plaques can rupture and create a blood clot, which can cause a heart attack. Card...

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University of Leeds | Professor Helen Philippou

Dr Helen Philippou and her team at the University of Leeds are looking for new ways to protect people who are diagnosed with heart and circulatory disease from developing further blood clots. Currently they receive an anti-platelet drug and...

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University of Leeds | Professor David Beech

Professor David Beech and colleagues at the University of Leeds have been awarded a PhD studentship to allow a young researcher to study the physical forces within blood vessels. They have shown that a protein called Piezo1, an ion chan...

Tesco Health Charity Partnership launches new appeal in September to help fund our life saving work

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Queen's University Belfast | Dr Chris Watson

In coronary heart disease, the small vessels that deliver blood supply to the heart are narrowed by the build-up of fatty plaques in the artery wall. These can rupture and cause a blood clot that can completely block the artery. The consequ...

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Fifty cross-party MPs have signed an open letter to the Chancellor calling for urgent action to protect research funded by UK medical research charities.