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Could night-time dialysis protect the heart in people with kidney failure?University of Leicester | Dr Matthew Graham-Brown
This Leicester team is testing whether slowing down kidney dialysis reduces damage to patients’ hearts. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people with kidney failure on dialysis. To stay alive, patients on dialysis have thei...
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Using data for a complete and individual picture of calcium signalling in the heartKing's College London | Dr Steven Niederer
Data scientists are developing ways to identify people who are vulnerable to heart side-effects from certain medicines. With every heartbeat, electricity travels across the heart and activates its muscle cells to contract. The chemical sig...
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Developing more realistic and reliable models of the heartImperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano
One of the challenges in studying heart diseases is developing more accurate ways to replicate what happens inside the body. Because the cells of the heart work under constantly changing physical and chemical conditions, they have unique ...
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Creating a computer model of the heart to better understand atrial fibrillationKing's College London | Dr Steven Niederer
Normally, your heart’s natural pacemaker sends out regular electrical impulses. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disorder, mainly affecting people over 55. AF happens when the regular electrical impulses in the atria...
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Improving the long-term safety of a common heart procedure in young people.Newcastle University | Professor Mark Pearce
Cardiac catheterisation is a procedure where a dye or device is delivered down a flexible tube into the heart’s blood supply while being visualised by X-rays. It’s used in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of lots of different heart ...
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How to have a healthy Ramadan when you have a heart condition
Find out how to stay healthy during Ramadan if you have a heart condition.
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BHF partners with ITN Business for news-style In a Heartbeat programme for World Heart Day
We've partnered with ITN Business to produce a news-style programme to raise awareness of heart and circulatory diseases.
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Heart waiting lists at the highest level on record in Scotland
The number of people on cardiology waiting lists is at the highest level on record in Scotland, according to our analysis.
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Ensuring future cardiac stem cell therapies work safely and in tandem with patients’ heart cellsUniversity of Surrey | Dr Patrizia Camelliti
Stem cells show great promise for repairing scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. One option for future therapies is to transplant new heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) that have been made from stem cells, onto the damaged area. For ...