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Hospital waiting lists for vital heart care have risen again to record levels, according to latest NHS England figures published today.

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King's College London | Professor Manuel Mayr

BHF Professor Manuel Mayr and his team at King’s College London are leaders in the high-tech field of cardiovascular proteomics. This is the study of all the proteins – called the proteome – in cells of the heart and blood stream. This gran...

Thousands of people in the UK have heart valve replacement each year, and many benefit from the research and advances that we’ve made possible.

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University of Cambridge | Professor Geoffrey Moggridge

Dr Geoffrey Moggridge and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge are developing new heart valves that could help more people with aortic stenosis, or AS. In AS the valve separating the heart and the aorta, the main artery supplyi...

Researchers we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast have been awarded are to investigate if a protein they have identified could be used to diagnose and treat heart failure patients

BHF-funded researchers in Edinburgh are using state-of-the-art techniques to identify genes that could help the heart to repair itself after a heart attack.

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University of Birmingham | Professor Attila Sik

Irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias), greatly increase the risk of sudden death from cardiac arrest – when the heart beat suddenly stops – and the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In 2010 the most common arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, ...

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University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

Supervised by Professor Kazem Rahimi, this PhD student is developing a new computer model to help doctors care for people with heart failure. Heart failure, when the heart cannot pump blood effectively around the body, severely impacts h...

Find out the truth behind recent reports that common painkillers like naproxen and ibuprofen could be leading to heart problems.

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University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

Professor Sven Plein and his team at the University of Leeds, are experts in a diagnostic method called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The scientists recently demonstrated that this non-invasive scanning method gives a better view of hea...