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The opportunity to introduce soft-opt out organ donation legislation in Northern Ireland is just days away from being lost unless urgent action is taken, we have warned alongside the Donate4Dáithí campaign.

Consultant Cardiologist, Professor Malcolm Walker, explains how chemo can affect your heart and what you can do to protect it.

European healthcare expenditure on heart & circulatory diseases.

Our Senior Cardiac nurse Philippa Hobson answers a question about heavy periods when you're on heart medication. Find out more.

Millions of people across the UK are living with undiagnosed conditions that significantly increase their risk of heart or circulatory diseases, including high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol and atrial fibrillation (AF).

Over 1,100 of our supporters took on Sunday’s AJ Bell Great North Run as part of the event’s charity partnership. The determined BHF runners joined 60,000 other trainer-clad participants, to take on the 13.1 miles from Newcastle to South Shields on 8th September, all with the same goal of funding lifesaving research.

RESEARCH

University of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng

Professor G Andre Ng at the University of Leicester is studying how the nervous system is involved in triggering abnormal heart rhythms, called ventricular fibrillation, which can lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD). Heart disease can incr...

Drugs currently undergoing development to treat anaemia could be repurposed to help prevent people with Type 2 diabetes from developing heart failure, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

A message from our Chief Executive, Dr Charmaine Griffiths, on what we are doing to support those who need it most during the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, and the steps we're taking to protect our life saving work.

Scientists at the University of Oxford will try to identify new reasons why children are born with heart defects. Dr Duncan Sparrow has been awarded £941,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to set up a research team to determine how environmental factors can cause abnormalities in how the heart develops.