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Heart care waiting list rises again, bucking overall trend
The heart care waiting list rose again in England, bucking the trend of overall waiting lists declining.
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The importance of scaffolding proteins for heart cell functionKing's College London | Professor Franca Fraternali
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. It can run in families and can affect more than one member of a family. The disease is caused by faulty genes carried in a person’s DNA. Dr Franca Fraternali and her colleagues at King’s ...
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Kidney health and high blood pressureUniversity of Exeter | Dr Maarten Koeners
Dr Maarten Koeners has been awarded an Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship grant totalling nearly £471,000 over 4 years to take up a research position at the University of Bristol. He will use novel techniques in rats to study ch...
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Record-breaking start as thousands learn CPR following launch of campaign
Nearly 23,000 people have stepped up to save lives by starting to learn CPR in just the first week of the ‘Every Minute Matters’ campaign, launched in partnership with Sky Bet.
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Do KATP channels protect heart muscle cells from damage?University of Dundee | Professor Aleksandar J Jovanovic
Professor Aleksandar Jovanovic is looking for ways to prevent heart muscle cells from becoming damaged after a heart attack. Professor Jovanovic’s team has recently found that treating cells with the hormone testosterone increases levels ...
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Understanding how high blood pressure causes kidney damageUniversity of Edinburgh | Dr Robert Menzies
BHF Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Robert Menzies is working out how uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to kidney damage. Drugs that target blood pressure directly do reduce kidney damage but kidney function steadily d...
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Could high-density lipoproteins treat abdominal aortic aneurysms?St George's, University of London | Professor Gillian W Cockerill
An abdominal aortic aneurysm is where there is a weakening in the main blood vessel in the abdomen, which results in a breakdown of the vessel. Professor Gillian W Cockerill and colleagues at St George's University London have recently show...
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Could regenerative cells called EPCs help repair blood vessels?University of Edinburgh | Dr Mairi Brittan
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Mairi Brittan is studying regenerative cells, called endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), to find out if they could be used to treat heart and circulatory disease. In heart and circulato...
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Working out how our genes affect our risk of coronary heart diseaseQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Panos Deloukas
Professor Panos Deloukas and his team at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry are carrying out very large genetic studies called genome-wide association studies (GWAS). They are working out how variations in our genes contr...