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University of Manchester | Dr Alicia DSouza

Exercising regularly is good for heart health, but athletes and people who take part in intensive exercise, such as ultramarathons, can be prone to heart rhythm disturbances such as atrial fibrillation. Dr Alicia D’Souza has previously sh...

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

More sensitive blood tests could help diagnose heart attacks, but it wasn’t clear how well they worked. BHF-funded research helped answer that question.

BHF's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer explains how a healthy lifestyle, medicines and the help of new science could help fewer people have heart attacks in the future.

SENIOR-RITA tested whether people aged over 80 should have invasive treatment for NSTEMI heart attack.

Heart rhythm problems left Andrew McDonald feeling low. But a lifelong dream of flying a Spitfire helped him get off the ground. Read more.

We have awarded over £900,000 to fund four ambitious projects at centres across the UK.

Professor Martin Bennett heads up the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, which is based in laboratories funded largely by the BHF.

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley

The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by a hear...

Coronation Street actress and entrepreneur, Kimberly Hart-Simpson, has been announced as our first Retail Ambassador. Kimberly has been a supporter for many years, championing shopping preloved, upcycling clothes, as well as volunteering in her local BHF shop in Manchester.