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A new type of cholesterol-lowering drug has been approved for use on the NHS and will be made available to hundreds of thousands of patients.

Researchers we fund have successfully grown smooth muscle cells in a dish from a small sample of blood and have shown that these behave in similar ways to those found in blood vessels.

Research we have part funded has found that an antibody drug developed by researchers at University College London could improve cancer treatment by helping tumour blood vessels to grow normally.

Stopping smoking is the single most important step you can take to protect the health of your heart. Find out more about how smoking affects your heart and what support you can get to quit.

The UK Government has launched a new Life Sciences Sector Plan, aiming to make the UK the top life sciences economy in Europe by 2030, and third globally by 2035.

Vivinne charts her weight loss journey.

The construction of a world-leading heart and lung research centre in Cambridge – which we part funded – is one step closer after the building reached its highest point of construction this week.

Fifty cross-party MPs have signed an open letter to the Chancellor calling for urgent action to protect research funded by UK medical research charities.

The pace of discovering life saving treatments is being threatened by the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on charities, we are warning today in a comment for a leading scientific journal.

Accommodation and food service workers are more likely to smoke than workers in any other UK industry, according to new statistics released by the British Heart Foundation ahead of No Smoking Day on 11th March.