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Katherine Woods speaks to Robert, Eleanor and Chris about how they have dealt with their mother's diagnosis - as well as the unexpected positive effect it's had on family life.

When GP Richard Gale had emergency heart surgery, he wasn't prepared for the stress, fear and nightmares that followed. He tells us how he sought help.

Statins are medicines that help lower your cholesterol and protect your arteries. Understand what statins do, and are used for, the pros and cons, their side effects and potential alternatives.

We are announcing the start of a clinical trial to see if cheap, existing drugs could be used to prevent cognitive decline and dementia after stroke.

Heart disease was found to be the most common pre-existing health condition in people who died with coronavirus (Covid-19) during March in England and Wales, according to new data from the ONS.

Research funded by us at Keele University could help doctors better identify the warning signs of a heart attack or stroke in patients with chest pain.

We take medicines every day ? but do you think about where they come from? Most modern drugs are created in the lab ? but these have bizarre origins.

Find out how BHF-funded researchers are using heart CT scans to help prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease.

A major review, led by BHF Professor Sir Rory Collins and published in The Lancet, suggests the benefits of statins have been underestimated and their potential harms exaggerated, due to failings in acknowledging the evidence from randomised trials and the limitations of other types of studies.

A 90-year-old consensus on the mechanisms which regulate the day-night rhythm in heart rate has been challenged by research from the University of Manchester, funded by us.