Search

With increasing ill health and unprecedented pressure on cardiology services, Scotland’s Hearts Need More. More focus, more investment, and more support.

A BHF-funded chemical engineer is perfecting a material to tackle heart valve disease. He tells Sarah Brealey how it could change patients' lives.

Find out more about the anatomy and function of the heart and circulatory system. Have a look through our pictures of the heart and learn more about what it takes to keep our blood pumping.

Covid-19 can cause serious illness if you have a heart or circulatory disease. Find out who’s at risk of serious illness, what to do if you test positive and how to manage symptoms.

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Dr John Stanley Gibson

Dr John Gibson and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge are investigating how to reduce complications associated with sickle cell disease (SCD). People with SCD produce unusually shaped red blood cells that don't live as long as he...

We’ve been supporting big data studies, which are vital in understanding what causes diseases and how to prevent and treat them.

The Mexican tetra fish can repair its heart after damage — something researchers have been striving to achieve in humans for years. Now, new research funded by the British Heart Foundation published in Cell Reports suggests that a gene called lrrc10 may hold the key to this fish’s remarkable ability.

A French study, published in The BMJ, that followed almost 7,500 healthy people over 65 suggests that statins reduce stroke risk in this population by 30 per cent. We comment on the findings here.

RESEARCH

Keele University | Dr Vinoj George

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited heart muscle disease. In ARVC, heart muscle cells – cardiomyocytes – often do not stick together properly because of one or more genetic mutations that affect cell to ce...

RESEARCH

University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

Manchester-based researchers are searching for ways to boost a natural heart-protecting protein to prevent or halt heart failure. Heart failure is a devastating condition, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In heart fail...