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Our new report lifts the lid the problem of portion sizes.

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University of Leicester | Professor Matthew Bown

<p>An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a balloon-like swelling of the aorta, the body&rsquo;s main blood vessel. If AAAs become large and burst, they can cause internal bleeding and sudden death. Surgery to repair AAA is risky, but doctor...

Our research has helped find ways to predict which people are at higher risk of heart attacks, and could lead to new treatments.

From dressing up our shops and stores to encouraging people to volunteer with us as part of ‘The Big Help Out’, there’s a lot we’ve been doing to help the Royal Family champion the work of charities like ours around this historic occasion.

We are appealing for volunteers to donate the gift of time as nationwide shortage threatens to impact funding for life saving research.

Researchers we've funded have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict someone's chance of developing heart failure at least five years before it develops.

Women in Science

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University of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor

Professor Harry Mellor and his colleagues at the University of Bristol are studying blood vessel growth to try to reveal new ways to help people with blood vessel disease. Angiogenesis - where new blood vessels are formed from pre-existin...

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University of Leicester | Professor Umesh Kadam

After a cancer diagnosis, doctors investigate whether people also have any existing heart and circulatory diseases. This is because many cancer treatments have side effects on the heart, and the type and intensity of treatment needs to be p...