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Scarred heart and clotting blood are winning scientific images in national competition
Scarred heart and clotting blood are winning scientific images in national competition
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Willpower and exercise are not enough to tackle childhood obesity
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of public health, the Government's new focus on addressing obesity presents reasons to be cheerful.
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Government must prioritise heart health in the Budget
The Budget must prioritise the nation’s heart health to save lives over the next decade, we remind the Government today. The financial statement is due to be delivered on March 11.
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Around 31,000 heart and circulatory deaths attributed to excess weight and obesity every year
We are urging the Government to press on with plans to restrict junk food advertising on TV and online.
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Turning back the tide on heart and circulatory diseases
Turning Back The Tide is our new five-point plan to improve outcomes for people with or at risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Find out more.
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Investigating the role of long non-coding RNA in the regeneration of blood vesselsUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
Researchers are searching for ways to make the human body regenerate and repair itself after injury or disease. In coronary heart disease and diabetes, blood vessels can become damaged, causing injury to the tissues they nourish. Regenerati...
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Understanding more about what controls the heartbeatUniversity of Leicester | Dr Richard D Rainbow
Dr Richard Rainbow and his colleagues at the University of Leicester are studying an ion channel called Kir6.1 that is important in controlling the heartbeat. The heartbeat is controlled by the flow of electrical currents in or out of hear...
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Does your weight affect your risk of heart surgery complications?University of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy
More than 35,000 people in the UK have heart surgery each year. Despite decades of research to improve outcomes, kidney and heart failure resulting from cardiac surgery still affects many patients. Professor Murphy’s team have shown that th...
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How do genetics make some people ‘fatter but healthy’University of Exeter | Professor Tim M Frayling
In general, being overweight or obese is linked to a higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases. However, some people who are overweight do not have this increased risk, and experts believe this is due to the way fat is distributed insid...
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Preventing unwanted platelet activationUniversity of Reading | Professor Jonathan Gibbins
Professor Jonathan Gibbins and his team at the University of Reading will study what chemical signals keep platelets inactive when they are not needed for clotting. Platelets are blood cells that protect us from losing too much blood from a...