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It is the blood flowing through our veins that keeps us alive — but the question is: can the liquids we drink help us to stay alive longer?

Researchers we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast have been awarded are to investigate if a protein they have identified could be used to diagnose and treat heart failure patients

We're funding research to investigate whether outcomes from heart surgery could be improved by checking for iron deficiency

Healthcare workers appear to be at low risk of coronavirus (Covid-19) infection from people admitted to hospital with the virus, according to a study we’ve part-funded.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) was the leading cause of death for men aged 50 and over in 2013, according to latest figures.

The Head of the BHF in Wales has welcomed a commitment by the Welsh Government to pledge half a million pounds of additional funding to improve community access to defibrillators.

Researchers we fund have successfully grown smooth muscle cells in a dish from a small sample of blood and have shown that these behave in similar ways to those found in blood vessels.

Train your teams in CPR to give them a lifesaving skill and help us improve survival rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

At the very least, there have been aound 28,000 delayed inpatient heart procedures since the coronavirus pandemic began, which threatens patient health, we warn today.

Researchers have recently been quoted in newspapers saying, “Artificial sweeteners should not be considered a safe alternative to sugar.” But what’s the truth? We look behind the headlines.