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Smoothies are 1 of your 5-a-day, but they’re also high in sugar and contain less fibre than whole fruits and vegetables. Find out some of the downsides and how to make them healthier.

We look behind the headlines after research suggests that eating more vegetables may not protect you against developing heart and circulatory disease.

Our expert answers a question on whether it's normal to experience constipation after heart surgery and suggests ways to help avoid it.

Being diagnosed, or living with, a heart or circulatory condition can affect your mental health.

Nearly 284,000 people were waiting for time critical heart operations and other heart procedures at the end of November 2021, latest NHS England figures reveal – 22 per cent higher than at the beginning of the pandemic.

A team part-funded by us at the University of Oxford have demonstrated earlier beating of the heart in mouse embryos. In the study researchers looked at the developing mouse heart and found that the muscle started to contract as soon as it formed the cardiac crescent – an early stage in heart development.

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University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

Heart failure is a devastating condition which affects over half a million people in the UK, and there is currently no cure. Scientists are trying to find new ways to repair the damage to heart muscle using stem cells, or help the heart to ...

A healthy diet can reduce your risk of developing coronary heart disease, improve your gut health and stop you gaining weight, reducing your risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.

Discover the latest research we’re funding, from the best way to investigate chest pain, to new ways of preventing damage from heart attacks.

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University of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy

Heart failure is a life-threatening condition that develops when the heart becomes damaged because of a heart attack, high blood pressure or an inherited heart condition. In most cases, the heart fails because heart muscle cells overgrow - ...