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Our expert answer a question about the follow-up care you should receive from your GP if you have had a heart attack.

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University of Oxford | Dr Pawel Swietach

Living cells naturally generate acid while carrying out the processes that allow them to do their respective jobs. This acid is toxic to the body, so it is transported out of cells into the bloodstream, and removed by the lungs and kidneys....

Medicines used to treat angina and high blood pressure could be used to treat acute kidney injury, a potentially deadly condition, according to research we've helped to fund.

BHF’s Chair of Trustees, Karen Frank, has won a Non-Executive Director Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership, governance and impact

Researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive Human Heart Cell Atlas to date including mapping of the specialised cells where the heartbeat originates.

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.

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University of Manchester | Dr Ashraf Kitmitto

Heart complications are a major cause of death in people with diabetes and these complications are often associated with abnormal contraction of the heart. A protein called the ryanodine receptor (RyR) helps to control heart contraction by ...

New genetic causes of ‘rare’ diseases, including pulmonary arterial hypertension, have been discovered by technology reading whole genomes in pioneering research that the BHF part-funded.

Researchers we fund at the University of Edinburgh are to use pioneering imaging techniques to investigate scarring in the heart, which could pave the way for major advances to save and improve more lives from heart disease.

What is sleep apnoea? And does it cause heart problems? Our expert, Professor John Stradling, explains.