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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.

We look behind the headlines about new draft guidelines on who could be offered statins.

Read our list of the most common blood tests you may have and what they reveal about the body.

Find out if butter or margarine is healthier, with BHF Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker.

Smoking and diabetes are the two leading risk factors for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of the arteries which can lead to limb amputation

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.

Evidence suggests eating too much sugar increases risk of cardiovascular disease.

A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could allow doctors to predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, according to research funded by us and published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Find out what causes clogged arteries and if they can be cleared with BHF Professor Martin Bennett.

Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research presented at the EuroCMR conference in Prague.