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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.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Professor Nicholas Mills has been awarded a prestigious fellowship – the BHF Butler Senior Clinical Research Fellowship – to find new ways to identify people with coronary artery disease and to pinpoint those most at risk of a heart attack....

Coronary heart disease is when your coronary arteries become narrowed by a gradual build-up of fatty material within their walls. Find out more about the causes, prevention and treatment of CHD

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.

People with heart-failure who are at high risk of heart rhythm problems shouldn’t have to wait to be fitted with a lifesaving implantable cardioverter defibrillator, according to research we’ve funded.

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.

Research funded by us has led to EU-approved artificial intelligence technology that can identify people at high risk of a fatal heart attack years before it strikes.

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University of Nottingham | Dr Vera Ralevic

Every year thousands of people suffer a heart attack, which starves the heart of oxygen. To help preserve its function, the heart and circulatory system respond by undergoing various changes that attempt to reduce the damage. One of these i...

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St George's, University of London | Professor Anthony Albert

Supervised by Dr Anthony Albert, this PhD student is studying the molecular processes controlling blood vessel contraction and high blood pressure. If muscle cells within blood vessel walls contract too much, this can cause high blood pr...

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