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Our expert answers your question on sunbathing if you have heart failure, including staying hydrated and using sunscreen.

RESEARCH

University of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett

The heartbeat begins at the natural pacemaker of the heart – called the sinoatrial node. The beat is initiated by two systems, called the ‘membrane clock’ and the ‘calcium clock’. As we get older or develop heart failure, the pacemaker no l...

Our Head in Northern Ireland, Fearghal McKinney, has welcomed today’s announcement from Education Minister Michelle McIlveen MLA that all post primary school pupils will be guaranteed access to CPR training.

RESEARCH

University of Glasgow | Dr Rachel Myles

Supervised by Dr Rachel Myles, this Clinical Research Training Fellow will work out how an inherited heart condition, called long QT syndrome, puts patients at risk of developing life-threatening fast heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Curren...

Researchers at Leeds University have identified a key stage in the development of a baby's heart which they say could help them reduce the number of miscarriages

A team part-funded by us at the University of Oxford have demonstrated earlier beating of the heart in mouse embryos. In the study researchers looked at the developing mouse heart and found that the muscle started to contract as soon as it formed the cardiac crescent – an early stage in heart development.

Combining two types of heart scan could help doctors to detect the deadly heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) before symptoms and signs on conventional tests appear, according to research funded by us.

EVENT

Date

31 October 2026

Location

London

Walk along the Thames through the heart of the Capital

BHF announces Heart Hero Awards 2020 and appoints three new celebrity ambassadors; Luke Pritchard, Gemma Atkinson and Yinka Bokinni.

RESEARCH

University of Edinburgh | Dr Matthew Reed

Around 300,000 people in the UK attend hospital emergency departments each year with palpitations, which are irregular heartbeats, and presyncope, a sudden feeling that you are about to lose consciousness. In some patients, these symptoms c...