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Keele University | Professor Glenn Morris

Professor Glenn Morris and his colleagues at Keele University are working out which proteins help heart cells to remain healthy, keep beating constantly for many years, and what goes wrong in heart disease. Sometimes people are born with ...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Nicholas Jones

Heart transplantation may be the only option available for some patients with irreversibly damaged and failing hearts. But the donor heart can be rejected by the person’s immune system. Although certain types of immune cells are responsible...

A defibrillator in your workplace, community or school could save a life if someone has a cardiac arrest. Find out what you need to know before getting one.

With stories about weight gain and obesity constantly in the media, it's hard to tell fact from fiction. We reveal the truth and offer weight loss tips.

Three quarters of UK adults have learned CPR - but less than half would not feel confident to perform chest compressions if someone was having a cardiac arrest, new research shows.

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy pacemakers can be used to help improve heart failure symptoms. The HOPE-HF trial tested a new way of carrying out this pacing, called His bundle pacing

Birmingham researchers awarded project grant to explore use of digoxin, found in foxgloves, for heart failure and atrial fibrillation treatments.

Our guide for planning the perfect charity ball to raise money for BHF.

Our guide to planning a coffee morning or tea party fundraiser for the British Heart Foundation. Get free materials and raise money for lifesaving research.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) involves overactive cell growth in blood vessel walls which reduces the space for blood flow in the lungs. PAH symptoms include breathlessness and chest pain. The signs worsen as lung blood pressure inc...